i wish you were here
i wish i was there
maybe i wish i was there much more so but i've been torn
and i miss you
and i wish you
everything they took away
and everything you have today
and that complicates
this feeling that
i wish you were here
i wish i was there
maybe i wish there was that much more then there is
and maybe i think one started too quick and one went unfinished
but if you could have it all
i'd take nothing more
then knowing you do
just a glimpse
no matter how much of you i miss
when i think of you here
i remember the baggage
the cement bags they dropped on your feet
and the puddle of tears you stood in
you wouldn't want to jump
and i'd like to believe i was of help
but i'd see them pushing
and then you sinking
and that kills me..
when i think of you there
i remember unfinished
the idea bulbs gather dust in a dim world
and the pile of art unfinished
you wouldn't want to stop
and they'd finally hear all you felt
that we imagined
not songs underlistened
though it's all i can hear of you now and i'll never turn it down
i wish you were here
i wish i was there
maybe i wish i was there much more so but i've been torn
and i miss you
and i wish you
everything they took away
and everything you have today
and that complicates
this feeling that
i wish you were here
i wish i was there
maybe i wish there was that much more then there is
and maybe i think one started too quick and one went unfinished
but if you could have it all
i'd take nothing more
then knowing you do
just a glimpse
no matter how much of you i miss
and god knows i miss everything
when i think of you here
i can't forget the days
the october pumpkin patch call to me
to imagine things i couldn't see
just wouldn't want to stop
there i liked to believe time was plenty still
but i'd see you fin'ly
with your bed sunken
and that was too much...but, besides the memories,
but it's all i got here in my head and knew i could never turn it down
and i miss you(hoped it would help out)
and i wish you
everything they took away
and everything you have today
and that complicates
this feeling that
i wish you were here
i wish i was there
maybe i wish there was that much more then there is
and maybe i think one started too quick and one went unfinished
but if you could have it all
i'd take nothing more
then knowing you do
just a glimpse
no matter how much of you i miss
and god knows i miss everything
i miss everything about you
here
there
here....
Given the brilliance of this piece, I should like to think that it originated as a poem, intentionally, rather than a song lyric; but, in either case, it is a magnificent deployment of words in evocation of complex emotion.
J-Called