If only / I wish
Look at the real situations (1-14) on the left and complete the gaps in the songs lines with an
appropriate form.
1. You brought it back
2. She can’t read my mind
3. You are not here
4. He trusts me
5. You will not leave
6. I cannot turn back time
7. I didn’t say
8. I can’t turn back time
9. I won’t stay
10. She is not a dancer
11. She has heard of cancer
12. God will not give her answers
13. We didn’t listen then
14. We didn’t know
Keri Hilson
Accidentally left my toothbrush in your holder
Wish you (1) ________________ it back here with you
Sometimes I tell you "no" when you wanna come over
And I try to play it tough like a dude
Lemar
She says I never listen and I'm not attentive to her emotions
I say she's got tunnel vision, only sees it her way,
So we never can work it out.
She's all ready to give up and move on, I don't think she knows,
How I wish sometimes she (2) ____________ read my mind.
Avril Lavigne
And I remember all those crazy things you said
You left them running through my head
You’re always there, you’re everywhere
But right now I wish you (3) ___________ here
Bobby Womack
I'm the best friend he's got
I'd give him the shirt off my back
He knows he can trust me with his life
But each time he leaves me alone, leaves me alone with his wife
I wish he (4) ______________ me so much
I think he really trusts me too much.
Evanescence
I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you (5) __________ just __________
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
Aqua
If only I (6) ______________ turn back time
If only I (7) ______________ what I still hide
If only I (8)______________ turn back time
I (9) ______________ stay for the night. For the night...
Our Lady Peace
While she wishes she (10) ___________ a dancer
And that she (11)________ never __________ of cancer
She wishes God (12) ______________ her some answers
And make her feel beautiful
Roger Hodgson
How long ago, how long
If only we (13)_______________ then.
If we (14)_______________ just how right we were going to be.
For we dreamed a lot
And we schemed a lot
And we tried to sing of love before the stage fell apart.