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I Wish That I Was Him

by Ryan Oyer

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I Wish That I Was Him (Anthony Quails cover) 04:03
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There’s a girl I call my daughter that doesn’t carry my last name. The man she calls her father lives twenty miles away. Every other week or so he comes knocking at my door. She climbs into his pickup truck, and they take off down the road. He calls her every evening just before she goes to bed to tell her that he loves her in case she may forget. I hear her laugh from down the hall before they say goodnight, and I try but can’t imagine what that kind of love feels like. I wish that I was him. He gets every moment that I’ll miss But could it be when he thinks of me the same words cross his lips: I wish that I was him. There will come a day, not far away, when she starts a brand-new life. In a little church, I can picture her dressed from head to toe in white. With our friends and family gathered there, the tears might fill my eyes. ’Cause I know just who she’s gonna choose to walk her down the aisle. I wish that I was him. He gets every moment that I’ll miss But could it be when he thinks of me the same words cross his lips: I wish that I was him. She may be his flesh and blood and the apple of his eye, but I only pray she’ll know some day I’ve loved her like she’s mine.

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Recorded in 2020 while quarantined during the COVID-19 Pandemic. I asked several Chattanooga Musicians to cover songs from "Silver Linings" and that I in turn would record a homemade acoustic version of one of their songs. Check out Anthony Quails version of my song "Prepared this Place For You" also released today at the links below, and if you've never heard his songs please check them out. Anthony is a songwriter that I highly respect and am glad to call my friend.

anthonyquails.bandcamp.com
ant1667.wixsite.com/anthonyquails

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released July 3, 2020

Written by Anthony Quails anthonyquails.bandcamp.com
from The Man I Thought I'd Never Be, released January 31, 2020
Recorded in Garageband on my iPhone
Mixed & Mastered by Butch Ross at Shinola Studios.

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Ryan Oyer Chattanooga, Tennessee

Singer/songwriter Ryan Oyer was raised on the sounds of the 60's British Invasion and 90's Britpop. This prolific writer has released 6 albums and 4 EP's in just over a decade. Just last year he released "Rise & Shine” & It's his most honest album to date. ... more

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