Story Behind The Song

A song written in the style of Randy Travis. So many songs are written for country tenors. This song utilizes the low soulful part of the voice of a country baritone to evoke the feelings of loneliness and despair associated with losing the one your really love and realizing it too late.

Song Description

A sad country ballad about realizing too late that you've lost the person you really love and wishing you could have them back.

Lyrics

How could I have been so blind
How could I have let you go
And why did it take so long for me to know

That you were the best thing
To happen to me
Now my lonely heart is achin'
I long for a love that was not meant to be
And here is the wish I'm makin'

Oh I wish
I could be holdin' you right now
Yes I wish
I could erase the hurt somehow
I wish that time would roll back
I wish your arms would open wide
But if wishes were horses then beggars would ride
And I'd be ridin'
With you by my side

Just like waking from the night
Like when the dark becomes the dawn
Suddenly I see the light
And you are gone

Now you said our romance was only a game
And I was the one who played it
Now all I have left is a wish to my name
One wish, and I've already made it

Oh I wish
I could be holdin' you right now
Yes I wish
I could erase the hurt somehow
I wish that time would roll back
I wish your arms would open wide
But if wishes were horses then beggars would ride
And I'd be ridin'
With you by my side

Now wishes are for children, story books and fairy tales
They're for lovers, they're for dreamers,
For when the love you counted on fails

So I wish
I could be holdin' you right now
Yes I wish
I could erase the hurt somehow
I wish that time would roll back
I wish your arms would open wide
But if wishes were horses then beggars would ride
And I'd be ridin'
With you by my side
With you by my side
With you
By my side