Wishing

We said goodbye on a lazy creek bed

About an hour South of St Lou

We finally got that special trip in

Thought that was something we would never do

You never got the chance to live like a kid

That's what momma used to say

Here we are now, together at last

On this beautiful sunny day

We spent the drive up talking together

Though you really never said a word

I guess it's for the best, cause according to momma

You never, ever said all the things I heard

28 miles off the interstate

Through the corn fields at the top of the hill

I pulled the car over at the foot of a bridge

Down below an old burnt mill

You told me one time when you were a kid

You'd go there on Saturday night

Just you and your friends and your favorite girl

That's the only time that the world seemed right

But fun is fleeting, poverty lasts

You signed on to be a man

You scratched your name down on the dotted line

You never made it back home again

I wish that there was some way,

I could start all over with you

I wish that maybe things different

But you did what you did to get you through

That's just the thing about wishing

Wishing can't make it true

It's getting late out here, we got long drive

Just to make it back to town

I open up the box step up to the water

And slowly pour it out

Milky white water, flowing lazy to the south

It's time to say a couple of words

I said I love you and just like always

Silence was all I heard

I wish that there was some way,

I could start all over with you

I wish that maybe things different

But you did what you did to get you through

That's just the thing about wishing

Wishing can't make it true

Wishing can't make it true

Wishing can't make it true

Wishing can't make it true