Five Candles (You Were There) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Gondring 

Cover art for Five Candles (You Were There) lyrics by Jars of Clay

japhy is right. The song was written for the soundtrack of the movie Liar Liar, which focuses on a five-year-old who wishes on his birthday that his attorney father (Jim Carrey) would be unable to tell a lie for a day.