I Wish (live) - Stevie Wonder - MP3 instrumental karaoke

On "I Wish," Stevie Wonder casts a reflective glow to consider his youth in the '50s and ‘60s, a time when he would 'sneak out the back door to hang with those hoodlum friends of mine'. Despite not having much, he looks back at the simplicity of those years through rose-tinted glasses, when his only worry was "for Christmas what would be my toy." The chorus finds him yearning for the past: "I wish those days could come back once more / Why did those days ever have to go? / I wish those days could come back once more / Why did those days ever have to go? / 'Cause I love them so," he sings over a characteristically funky backdrop. "I Wish" is one of the key tracks on Stevie Wonder's blockbuster 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life, for which he won Album of the Year at the 19th Grammy Awards, along with a wealth of other accolades. This 1995 live version captures the magical energy of a Stevie Wonder performance.