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Wish You Were Here Lyrics

Take it slow
Tell me all how you've grown just for me
Could we all reminisce
Better yet, here's a pen
Make a list
Fill it full with all the things I've missed
'Cause I can barely drive past the school
Without stopping to think of you
And how we used to act a fool
But worst of all I wish I called
At least a thousand times or more
Just to hear what I've been missing

If a picture is all that I have
I can picture the times that we won't get back
If I picture it now it don't seem so bad
Either way, I still wish you were here
Don't say everything's meant to be
'Cause you know it's not what I believe
Can't help but think that it should've been me
Either way, I still wish you were here

Thinking back on the days
Where we all used to say
I know anywhere's better than here
In the back of the class
Where we grew up too fast
Living life like there's nothing to fear

But the eyes on the road
Driving home all alone
Singing along to a song from three summers ago
The one that made you remember it
Now I'll always remember it
As the song that your life ended with
If a picture is all that I have
I can picture the times we won't get back
If I picture it now it don't seem so bad
Either way, I still wish you were here
Don't say everything's meant to be
'Cause you know it's not what I believe
Can't help but think that it should've been me
Either way, I still wish you were here

And they say you're in a better place
But a better place is right here with me
Yeah they say you're in a better place
Too bad it's not what I believe

'Cause a picture is all that I have
To remind me that you're never coming back
If I picture it now it just makes me sad
And right now I just wish you were here
Don't say everything's meant to be
'Cause you know it's not what I believe
Can't help but think that it should've been me
In the end I just wish you were here

Yeah they say you're in a better place
Either way I still wish you were here
They say you're in a better place
In the end I just wish you were here

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mellow_harsher On Aug 30, 2017

A Part of Me

December

Threat Level Midnight

What Did You Expect

Growing Pains

Thinking back on the days
Where we all used to say
I know anywhere's better than here
In the back of the class
Where we grew up too fast
Living life like there's nothing to fear

And they say you're in a better place
But a better place is right here with me
Yeah they say you're in a better place
Too bad it's not what I believe

Yeah they say you're in a better place
Either way I still wish you were here
They say you're in a better place
In the end I just wish you were here

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by anonymous8642

4y ago

This song is about someone who has died, and this person is missing them. They died and now all they have is a picture to remember them by. \n\nThis song is really moving, I had 3 people die in the space of a month and these lyrics have been all I’ve listened to recently. There’s just something so truthful about them that resonates with me.\n\n“Don’t say everything’s meant to be, because you know it’s not what I believe” - this is so relatable because as much as people want to help and try to make me feel better by saying it was meant to be, I just can’t help but feel that’s not true. I know they mean well, but as much as the ‘universe’ may have ‘wanted it to happen’ it doesn’t make me feel any happier about them being gone. \n\n“A pictures all that I have, to remind me that you’re never coming back” - looking at the pictures, staring at their face and remembering what it felt like to even be near them and in their presence, reminiscing on how happy they made you and the joyousness you felt when you were with them, the picture just reminds you that you will never feel that again. That person is gone. They are now just ink on a piece of paper, or pixels on a screen, or a figment or your imagination. They exist now, only in your memory. Staring at pictures can make you feel a million times worse because they DO just remind you that that person is never. coming. back. ever. They are gone, once and for all. \n\n“They say you’re in a better place, but a better place is right here with me” - agreed. Would I rather they were up there, gone? Or standing by my side? I’d choose the latter, personally. \n\n“In the end I just wish you were here” - in the end, I do just wish they were here.

My Interpretation

This song is about someone who has died, and this person is missing them. They died and now all they have is a picture to remember them by. \n\nThis song is really moving, I had 3 people die in the space of a month and these lyrics have been all I’ve listened to recently. There’s just something so truthful about them that resonates with me.\n\n“Don’t say everything’s meant to be, because you know it’s not what I believe” - this is so relatable because as much as people want to help and try to make me feel better by saying it was meant to be, I just can’t help but feel that’s not true. I know they mean well, but as much as the ‘universe’ may have ‘wanted it to happen’ it doesn’t make me feel any happier about them being gone. \n\n“A pictures all that I have, to remind me that you’re never coming back” - looking at the pictures, staring at their face and remembering what it felt like to even be near them and in their presence, reminiscing on how happy they made you and the joyousness you felt when you were with them, the picture just reminds you that you will never feel that again. That person is gone. They are now just ink on a piece of paper, or pixels on a screen, or a figment or your imagination. They exist now, only in your memory. Staring at pictures can make you feel a million times worse because they DO just remind you that that person is never. coming. back.       ever. They are gone, once and for all. \n\n“They say you’re in a better place, but a better place is right here with me” - agreed. Would I rather they were up there, gone? Or standing by my side? I’d choose the latter, personally. \n\n“In the end I just wish you were here” - in the end, I do just wish they were here.

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