Spintune 15 rd 2 Song Bio- I Wish (shadow)

Nov 17, 2018 14:28


The song

I Wish

I was young, but I was dying

Didn’t think that I’d see twenty

I would never have a husband

Or children in my life

She was young, her life was over

Taken from you in an instant

You would never hold her children

She would never be a wife

Oh, I wish you could see her!

See her playing in the yard

I wish you could meet her!

She’s the age your daughter was

When in your grief you gave my life to me-

I wish you could see her

Thank you! Thank you!

For my daughter for my husband

For my life

Thank You! Thank you!

I pray your grief was lighter

With the knowledge that

You gave another, life

Time has passed, it seems so quickly

But the years are five and twenty

I got to have a husband

And a daughter of my own

You’re older too, I’m sure you miss her

I’ll never know if you had others

I hope you had more children

I hope you haven’t been alone

I wish  you could see her!

Blonde hair shining in the sun

I wish you could meet her!

Know your child’s life is not done

She’s alive in me, and in my daughter too-

I wish you could meet her.

Thank you! Thank you!

For my daughter for my husband

For my life

Thank You! Thank you!

I pray your grief was lighter

With the knowledge that

You gave another, life



The Bio
My next door neighbor is alive today because a child died 25 years ago. She remarked to me recently.  "I was watching Isabella and realized she is the age of the girl whose liver I received."  A powerful thought to have, truly bitter sweet, and it was this that I wanted to convey in my song.  Back then, transplant donors families and the people whose lives were saved were not able to communicate with each other. I am glad that today they are given the option of sending letters, and possibly meeting each other.  I have seen videos of people listening to the heart beat of their child in another person's body, and am getting teary remembering it as I type.
  My uncle had a heart transplant from a 16 year old who had died in a car wreck; we got to have him and all his wonderful silliness for 16 more years because of it, far more than the 5 years they hope the transplant will not be rejected.
  25 years for my neighbor...both she and her daughter are living miracles.

**Smell edit- I just spoke to Jennifer, she has had her transplant for 28 years, not 25.  And she liked the song :)

Techy writing and music bio stuff.
Ted and I worked on the tune together, I had a basic idea of the tune and told him "Think Anne Murray or Karen Carpenter".  Not certain he knew what I was talking about, but he sure came through, didn't he?  Those beautiful bell like notes, the arrangement etc are all his magic.

I had some fun with placement of rhyme schemes, and deciding that instead of verse-chorus-bridge-verse-chorus  I would do verse-chorus-other chorus-verse-chorus-other chorus, and only keep those second "Thank you" chorus's the same.

I put internal rhyming patterns - I was young, she was young- then the wife/life in the first section, and the repeated "her's" in the second, and the slight rhyme sound of the a in was and yard.
I wanted to continue the story in the second set of verses- whereas in the first I said "I would never have a husband,  Or children in my life" in the second set it was "I got to have a husband, And a daughter of my own".
And just to rhyme with "own"- and to tear your hearts out - I came up with "I hope you had more children, I hope you haven’t been alone". It was the last line I wrote, to correct an earlier one which didn't rhyme with "own".

Yeah, kinda tore my own heart out with it.  Still getting teary and blowing my nose a lot. I need more tea to get the tears out of my throat if I am going to sing this decently!

Here.  Have a tissue. :)

Oh- and sign an organ donor card; tell your family you have done so. Don't take your organs to heaven- heaven knows we need them here!

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