I Wish You Would

**I Wish You Would** is the seventh track on 1989. It was released on October 27, 2014.

## 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'd 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 2 AM 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

But 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'd 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, I wish I, wish I

I, I, I, I, I, I wish I, wish I

[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 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 2]

I wish you would come back

Wish I never hung up the phone like I did, I

Wish you knew that

I'd 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 you would come back

Wish I never hung up the phone like I did, I

Wish you knew that

I'd 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

[Outro]

(I, I, I, I, I, I wish I, wish I)

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, I, I, I, I, I wish I, wish I)

I, I, I, I, I, I wish I, wish I

I, I, I, I, I, I wish I, wish I

I wish you would

## Commentary

> 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.
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## Trivia

* This song was written about Harry Styles. A fan who attended the 1989 Secret Sessions at Swift's home posted the following on Tumblr: "Taylor said that she wrote “I Wish You Would” a couple of months after her and Harry [Styles] broke up, and they decided to become friends again and she said this was the first time she had become friends with an ex to the point where they were comfortable enough to talk about why the relationship didn’t work out. She said he told her about how, after they broke up, he bought a house literally one road adjacent to hers. Every day he would drive home, and accidentally turn into her street, and he told her how he just wanted to stop at her house and see her, but he never did. She said this song is about while he was in the car making the decision to get out the car and see her, she was sitting in her bedroom, wishing he would make the move and go back to her and just pitch up at her house. She compared it to a classic John Hughes movie where both parties want the same thing but neither has the guts to say anything. Honestly, she spoke so fondly of that relationship. She really does miss it."

## References

1. ↑ https://genius.com/amp/Taylor-swift-i-wish-you-would-voice-memo-lyrics
2. ↑ https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/1stlexualhealing/100940169223