Billy Gilman Lyrics

Album: Music Through Heartsongs: Songs Based On the Poems of Mattie J.T. Stepanek

It Happened Anyway Lyrics

When Jamie died

I didn't understand

The eternity of my sadness

I wish I could have prevented it

When I rest in bed

Dream about how I could have

Lived and played with my brother

How I wish that I could have saved him

If wishing could bring him back

He'd be here with me today

But then I remember...

It happened anyway

When I look at pictures

And imagine what he would be like

Now a dozen years old

I wish could have saved him from agelessness

If crying could bring him back

He'd be here with me today

But then I remember...

It happened anyway

When I think of why and how

He was with us and he left us

I wish I could have prevented it

And stopped his death, and saved him from

Never needing breath for birthday candles...

For Birthday candles

If wishing could bring him back

He'd be here with me today

But then I remember

When Jamie died we didn't understand

Oh, but then I remember

It happened anyway

It happened anyway

It happened anyway

It happened anyway