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Lyrics
[Intro]
[Violin weeps in a narrow
Aching melody
Then fades under a lone acoustic guitar]
[Verse 1]
Coffee gone cold on the table
Sun’s already halfway gone
Hands keep missing the pages
Of the book I leaned on
Name on the spine is fading
Like numbers I can’t recall
I thought I’d climb a mountain
Now I barely cross the hall
[Chorus]
Wish I did more when I had time
Wish I called back every friend
Stayed a little longer
When the night said
“this should end”
Now my days feel like spare change
Rolling dark across the floor
God
I’d trade these quiet hours
For one good hour more
[Verse 2]
Photos in cracked silver frames
Strangers that look like me
Kids with their arms around ghosts
I once swore I’d always be
I saved my favorite bottle
For some later
Better night
Now it gathers dust with my stories
In the corner
Out of sight
[Chorus]
Wish I did more when I had time
Wish I learned to say their names
Held their faces in the moment
Not in corners of a frame
Now the clock ticks like a hammer
Driving nails in every door
I keep knocking on my past life
No one’s there anymore
[Bridge]
If there’s a last small mercy
Waiting beyond this chair
Let it be a second’s echo
Of the man I meant to wear
Not the coat of easy choices
Hung by someone else’s hand
Let me stand once
Just once
Like I always said I’d stand
[Chorus]
Wish I did more when I had time
Wish I carved my name in rain
Let it wash across their windows
Not just whisper in my brain
Now my heart beats like an engine
Running low and running sore
If there’s anything still in me
Let it be wishing
For a little more
[Outro]
[Violin returns
Softer and rougher
Tracing the chorus melody as the guitar slows and fades]
Details
GeneratedFeb 17, 2026
Duration5:03
LanguageEnglish
Style
rock, Slow country-rock ballad with trembling male vocal, sparse fingerpicked acoustic and mournful violin intro that returns between sections. Brushes on snare, soft bass, and a distant tremolo electric guitar. Verses stay hushed and intimate; choruses swell with harmony and organ pad, then fall back to a fragile, near-whispered close., vocal, violin, sad, country rock, slow
Credits
Prompt by
James6346
James6346ModelAria v5
Prompt
Violin crying intro, slow country rock sad melody, slow dark old man Leonard cohen shivering vocal about wish I did more when I had time
