"There Goes My Life" is a song written by Wendell Mobley and Neil Thrasher and recorded by American country music singer Kenny Chesney.
The song spent seven consecutive weeks at number one between late December 2003 and January 2004.
He tells the audience that his dreams of skipping town after graduation and hanging out on the coast are ruined; in the chorus he sings, "There goes my life."
The father thinks as she drives away, "There goes my life, my future, my everything ..." The music video was directed by Shaun Silva, and premiered on CMT on October 28, 2003.
In the video, the protagonist is a high school football player, played by Austin Chittim.