I Wish You Would
1989 (2014) | 1989 (Taylor's Version) [2023]
Table of Contents
Background
Lyrical Theme
«'I Wish You Would’ is a song that I wrote with Jack Antonoff and it was the first song we ever worked on together. I think, for this song, we wanted to create a sort of John Hughes movie visual with pining and, you know, one person’s over here and misses the other person but is too prideful and won’t say it. Meanwhile this other person is here and missing the same person; they’re missing each other but not saying it. And I had this happen in my life and so I wanted to kind of narrate it in a very cinematic way where it’s like you’re seeing two scenes play out and then in the bridge you’re seeing the final scene, where it resolves itself. So it says, 'It’s a crooked love in a straight line down, makes you wanna run and hide but it makes you turn right back around.’ It kind of is like that dramatic love that’s never really quite where it needs to be and that tension that that creates.»
Taylor Swift
Writing to Track
«This is another way I’ve written songs recently. This is a song I did with Jack Antonoff, and Jack is one of my friends and so were hanging out and he pulled out his phone and goes ‘I made this amazing track the other day. It’s so cool, I love these guitar sounds.’ And he played it for me and immediately I could hear this finished song in my head, and I just said ‘Please, please let me have that. Let me play with is, send it to me.’ And so he sent it to me and I was on tour and this was me playing the track on my laptop recording me singing the vocal into my phone and it ended up being a song called 'I Wish You Would', because Jack wrote back and said ‘I love that’. So this is another way of writing, it’s writing to track.»
Taylor Swift
Live Performances
Taylor's Version
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
It’s 2am in your car
Windows down, you pass my street
The memories start
You say it’s in the past
You drive straight ahead
You’re thinking that I hate you now
‘Cause you still don’t know what I never said
[Chorus 1]
I wish you would come back
Wish I never hung up the phone like I did
I wish you knew that
I’ll never forget you as long as I live
And I wish you were right here
Right now, it’s all good
I wish you would
[Verse 2]
It’s 2am in my room
Headlights pass the window pane
I think of you
We’re a crooked love
In a straight line down
Makes you want to run and hide
Then it makes you turn right back around
[Chorus 2]
I wish you would come back
Wish I never hung up the phone like I did
I wish you knew that
I’ll never forget you as long as I live
And I wish you were right here
Right now, it’s all good
I wish you would
I wish we could go back
And remember what we were fighting for
And I wish you knew that
I miss you too much to be mad anymore
And I wish you were right here
Right now, it’s all good
I wish you would
[Post-Chorus]
I, I, I, I, I, I wish, I wish
I, I, I, I, I, I wish, I wish
I, I, I, I, I, I wish, I wish
[Bridge]
You always knew how to push my buttons
You give me everything and nothing
This mad, mad love makes you come running
To stand back where you stood
I wish you would, I wish you would
I wish you would, I wish you would (I wish you would, I wish you would)
I wish you would, I wish you would (I wish you would, I wish you would)
(I wish, I wish, I)
[Verse 3]
2am, here we are
See your face, hear my voice in the dark
We’re a crooked love in a straight line down
Makes you wanna run and hide
But it made us turn right back around…
[Chorus 1]
I wish you would come back
Wish I never hung up the phone like I did
I wish you knew that
I’ll never forget you as long as I live
And I wish you were right here
Right now, it’s all good
I wish you would
[Chorus 2]
I wish you would come back
Wish I never hung up the phone like I did
And I wish you knew that
I’ll never forget you as long as I live
And I wish you were right here
Right now, it’s all good
I wish you would
I wish we could go back
And remember what we were fighting for
And I wish you knew that
I miss you too much to be mad anymore
And I wish you were right here
Right now, it’s all good
I wish you would
[Repeat Bridge]
You always knew how to push my buttons
You give me everything and nothing
This mad mad love makes you come running
To stand back where you stood
I wish you would, I wish you would
[Outro]
I, I, I, I, I, I wish, I wish
I, I, I, I, I, I wish, I wish
I, I, I, I, I, I wish, I wish
I wish you would
Artist | Taylor Swift | |||
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Albums | 1989 1989 (Taylor’s Version) | |||
Released | October 27, 2014 | |||
Re-Released | October 27, 2023 | |||
Written | 2013 | |||
Studios | Lamby’s House (NYC) Conway (Los Angeles) Electric Lady (New York) Rough Customer (Brooklyn) Sharp Sonics (Los Angeles) Audu Music Studio (Brooklyn) Hutchinson Sound (Brooklyn) Pleasure Hill Recording (Portland) Big Mercy (Brooklyn) | |||
Genre | Synth Pop | |||
Length | 3:27 | |||
Labels | Big Machine Records Republic Records | |||
Songwriters | Taylor Swift Jack Antonoff | |||
Producers | Jack Antonoff Taylor Swift Greg Kurstin (original) Max Martin (original) | |||
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