francine honey

I Wish… A song of regret and yearning

Official Video: August 17, 2019

From the Album: to be continued... released October 2018

As a parent, you do the best you can for your children. Every parent wants their children’s lives to be happier, healthier and better than theirs was. But it isn’t that simple. No matter how hard you try, history has a way of repeating itself sometimes. The train goes off the track. And all you can do is hope your family’s roots are strong enough to hold.

Song Lyrics

I Wish

©Francine Honey (SOCAN)

The soles of my feet are scarred

from walking on egg shells

You don’t see the battered hearts,

that have been through hell

Where lifetimes of not good enoughs

are worn like armour

We’d never see it coming

Like a freight train jumping off the tracks

Chorus:

I wish, I wish, I wish

We could go back, re-plant the garden

We would be beautiful flowers

I wish

Looking back at the rows in our family garden

Where flowers try to grow between empty bottles

Parents do what they can to make life better

They never saw it coming

Like a freight train jumping off the tracks

Repeat Chorus

Bridge:

Took years to clear all the glass,

Shattered in my path

Sowed some seeds of my own

Love how those flowers have grown

There were things I didn’t see coming

I know their roots are strong enough

I couldn’t stop the damage from being done