“If I Could Turn Back Time” was included on Cher’s nineteenth studio album, Heart of Stone. The song was released on June 1, 1989 as the second North American and first European single release from the album. Highly successful around the globe, it was seen as a major comeback for Cher in the late 19...
[Intro]
If I could turn back time
If I could find a way
I'd take back those words that've hurt you and you'd stay
[Verse 1]
I don't know why I did the things I did
I don't know why I said the things I said
Pride's like a knife, it can cut deep inside
Words are like weapons, they wound sometimes
[Pre-Chorus]
I didn't really mean to hurt you
I didn't wanna see you go
I know I made you cry, but baby
[Chorus]
If I could turn back time, if I could find a way
I'd take back those words that've hurt you, you'd stay
If I could reach the stars, I'd give 'em all to you
Then you'd love me, love me, like you used to do
If I could turn back time
[Verse 2]
My world was shattered, I was torn apart
Like someone took a knife and drove it deep in my heart
When you walked out that door I swore that I didn't care
But I lost everything, darlin', then and there
[Pre-Chorus]
Too strong to tell you I was sorry
Too proud to tell you I was wrong
I know that I was blind and darlin'
[Chorus]
If I could turn back time, if I could find a way
I'd take back those words that've hurt you and you'd stay
If I could reach the stars, I'd give 'em all to you
Then you'd love me, love me, like you used to do
[Bridge]
If I could turn back time
(If I could turn back time)
If I could turn back time
(If I could turn back time)
If I could turn back time
Oh, baby
[Pre-Chorus]
I didn't really mean to hurt you
I didn't wanna see you go
I know I made you cry, but
[Chorus]
If I could turn back time, if I could find a way
I'd take back those words that hurt you
If I could reach the stars, I'd give 'em all to you
Then you'd love me, love me, like you used to do
If I could turn back time, if I could find a way
And maybe, maybe, maybe you'd stay
If I could reach the stars
If I Could Turn Back Time was written by Diane Warren.
If I Could Turn Back Time was produced by Diane Warren & Guy Roche.
Cher released If I Could Turn Back Time on Thu Jun 01 1989.
Writer of the song, Diane Warren:
I thought was was a great song for her and she hated it. And so I went to the studio when she was recording another song of mine. And literally when she was in the lounge, I got on my hands and knees and held her leg down until she said she’d try it out. She goes,...