"Wish Upon Tomorrow's Star"

This song is based on idea supplied by Becky Talmadge, my longtime penpal. I was always fond of this one, but never got a good recording of it. The last time I tried was in the late 1990s, shortly after Hitomi and I moved to Round Lake. I was sequencing a bunch of songs on the Roland KR-570 with plans to record them, but aside from some very rough demos, nothing came of all that work. I headed back to work at Abbott Laboratories, which was a good job, working with people I liked, but the job just wasn’t right for me. The whole Round Lake episode sent me into a tailspin from which I’ve been struggling to recover ever since. It’s not Abbott’s fault. Nor is it Round Lake’s fault. The blame is all mine. I got so depressed that Hitomi was worried about me. She suggested we move back to the Boston area, which we did. There, living in an apartment in Central Square, Cambridge, I attempted to turn myself into an artist. It was fun, but financially a disaster. That’s something else we’ve been struggling to recover from ever since.

Wish Upon Tomorrow's Star

© 1985 Brian Hutzell

Don't make a wish tonight

For fear it might come true

Once chance is all you get

Wish upon tomorrow's star

There's a star looking at me

A familiar light and it points at me

We have met before when the sky was clear

It's up there now and I think I hear

It reminding me of a wish I made

I commanded it and the star obeyed

I made a wish for love to be sent my way

And so it was I found her the next day

The clouds rolled in when the sky turned dark

And I never thanked the star

Don't make a wish tonight

For fear it might come true

Once chance is all you get

Wish upon tomorrow's star

There's a star tonight scolding me

For the love I lost foolishly

She was sent to me after my request

She was good to me, full of tenderness

But I ran away and it broke her heart

I'm ashamed to see that accusing star

I made a wish for love to be sent my way

Then I hurt the one who loved me yesterday

My eyes looked up when the sky turned dark

Wish upon tomorrow's star

Don't make a wish tonight

For fear it might come true

Once chance is all you get

Wish upon tomorrow's star

Don't make a wish tonight

Wish upon tomorrow's star