This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
I'm wishing on a star
To follow where you are
I'm wishing on a dream
To follow what it means
I'm wishing on a star
To follow where you are
I'm wishing on a dream
To follow what it means
And I wish on all the rainbows that I see
I wish on all the people who really dream
And I'm wishing on tomorrow, praying it'll come
And I'm wishing on all the lovin' we've ever done
I never thought I'd see
A time when you would be
So far away from home
So far away from me
Just think of all the moments that we'd spent
I just can't let you go, for me you were meant
And I didn't mean to hurt you, but I know
That in the game of love you reap what you sow
I feel it's time we should make up, baby
I feel it's time for us to get back together
And make the best of things, oh, baby
When we're together, whether or never
I feel it's time we should make up, baby
I feel it's time for us to get back together
And make the best of things, oh, baby
When we're together, whether or never
I'm wishing on a star
To follow where you are
I'm wishing on a dream
To follow what it means
And I wish on all the rainbows that I see
I wish on all the people we've ever been
And I'm hopin' on all the days to come and days to go
And I'm hopin' on days of lovin' you so
I'm wishing on a star
To follow where you are
I'm wishing on a star, oh
And I wish on all the rainbows that I see
I'm wishing on a star
To follow where you are
I'm wishing on a star
And I wish on all the rainbows that I see
I'm wishing on a star
To follow where you are
I'm wishing on a star, oh, ah
Oh, baby, baby, I wish
I'm wishing on a star, oh
To follow where you are
I'm wishing on a star, baby
To follow wherever you might be
To follow where you are
I'm wishing on a dream
To follow what it means
I'm wishing on a star
To follow where you are
I'm wishing on a dream
To follow what it means
And I wish on all the rainbows that I see
I wish on all the people who really dream
And I'm wishing on tomorrow, praying it'll come
And I'm wishing on all the lovin' we've ever done
I never thought I'd see
A time when you would be
So far away from home
So far away from me
Just think of all the moments that we'd spent
I just can't let you go, for me you were meant
And I didn't mean to hurt you, but I know
That in the game of love you reap what you sow
I feel it's time we should make up, baby
I feel it's time for us to get back together
And make the best of things, oh, baby
When we're together, whether or never
I feel it's time we should make up, baby
I feel it's time for us to get back together
And make the best of things, oh, baby
When we're together, whether or never
I'm wishing on a star
To follow where you are
I'm wishing on a dream
To follow what it means
And I wish on all the rainbows that I see
I wish on all the people we've ever been
And I'm hopin' on all the days to come and days to go
And I'm hopin' on days of lovin' you so
I'm wishing on a star
To follow where you are
I'm wishing on a star, oh
And I wish on all the rainbows that I see
I'm wishing on a star
To follow where you are
I'm wishing on a star
And I wish on all the rainbows that I see
I'm wishing on a star
To follow where you are
I'm wishing on a star, oh, ah
Oh, baby, baby, I wish
I'm wishing on a star, oh
To follow where you are
I'm wishing on a star, baby
To follow wherever you might be
Lyrics submitted by AbFab, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Wishing on a Star Lyrics as written by Billie Rae Calvin
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Well, I absolutely love this song! To me, it's about loving some one so much that you'd give anything to follow them, to be where they are, and spend all of your time with them. But, they don't reciprocate that love. Or, she did something wrong in the relationship, and now, her lover won't take her back, even though she's telling him how sorry she is, and trying to prove it by telling him that she'd give anything to be with him.
Can any one tell me, did Tina Marie ever sing it? I have two different versions on my computer, and I'm trying to figure out which one is which. Lol. It's kinda difficult when every one and their brother does a remake of it.
Rose's version is pretty old. Sounds original to me. I dunno.
i love this song it came out in the late 1970's is written for a lost love that ask for them to make up and are in love with each other and through thick and thin they'll have each other no matter the distance
i love this song it came out in the late 1970's is written for a lost love that ask for them to make up and are in love with each other and through thick and thin they'll have each other no matter the distance
i love this song it came out in the late 1970's is written for a lost love that ask for them to make up and are in love with each other and through thick and thin they'll have each other no matter the distance