Kenny Chesney: Who You'd Be Today Meaning
Song Released: 2005
Who You'd Be Today Lyrics
I wear the pain like a heavy coat
Feel you everywhere I go
See your smile, I see your face
I hear you laughing in the rain
Still can't believe you're gone
It ain't fair you died too young
Like a story that...
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Kenny, your song just hit my heart. We lost our son at 21 (three years ago) in a terrible car accident. Your song came on the radio today, and I just cried and cried. The words are sooo true. Thank you for writing such a touching song!
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Song reminds me of my son who died at only 7yrs so painful.that part of .."who you would be today "really makes me wonder how old he would be now.
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Thank you Kenny!
The month this song came out was 15 yrs. ago June 2005. I know this because this song was shared with me after my 17yr. old son passed. My son was into superman even had a big emblem on the rear window of the explorer he was driving. On June 2 he went to take care of his sheep for his fair project for ag class. He was on his way to school after feeding the sheep. He was hit by a train that morning. His Dad was on his way to Indianapolis for work and I got a call at work about the accident. I ran through the plant like a mad woman and hopped on my motorcycle and road to the hospital. The Dr.s were busy with Adam and I could not see him. I had to call school and my husband etc. The Dr. came in and told me he may not make it. It was the worst 2 days of my life. We made the decision to donate all that was viable. Adam was a healthy guy played football, loved art. He passed the next day on June 3rd. This song was shared with me 2 weeks later. It helped me more then I can say. It helped me cry. I am 58 now and it still feels like yesterday! I will probably listen to this song a few times today! Today is Adam's 33rd Birthday. Again I want to Thank you for sharing this with us all -
I was 18, and my cousin was 19; he had just come home for the first time after joining the Army. I got to go see him and spend most of the day with him and his sister. We ate lunch at Taco Bell, and listened to "Black Betty" thinking it was a risque because it had the word damn in it. :) A couple of nights later he was out with a couple of his friends. He was driving when the tie rod broke and sent the car into a guard rail, throwing my cousin out of the car, the car landed on him and killed him instantly. Unfortunately, his friends had to climb over him in order to get out of the car. I'm blessed to have been able to have that lunch with him and sing Black Betty. That was the hardest funeral I've ever attended. Full Military service with the rifles firing a 21 gun salute and playing taps.
This is a wonderful song! You sing it beautifully!
I hope you're still enjoying your UT quilt I made you some years ago!!! :) -
My son Travis called me from WA ST on fathers day to wish me happy fathers day, and to me too. I said Travis, are you going to be a daddy? He said “yes, we just found out a couple days ago and I wanted to supprise you on fathers day, my gift to you.” 4 days later he was killed instantly in car accident coming home from work. Nothing like that dreaded phone call. That will be 10 years ago this June 26. Not a day goes by that I dont miss him. He will be forever 30 years, 1 month & 9 days old.
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A friend of mine passed away in December of 2016. He was only 19, and suffered a heart attack from a blood clot. He had a lot going for him, already in college, being looked at for a junior electorate, surrounded with friends and family that loved him, and he had a girlfriend of three years who he was starting to think of proposing to. All of that gone overnight for him. He was a dear friend of mine, practically a brother to me, and had mentored me through quite a few things within school. I miss him daily still, and hope to see him again once death has taken me. So this song means quite a bit to me.
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13 years ago i lost my son to stillborn full term. This song helps me through it all. Thankyou kenny for songing this song. Alot of people can relate to this. Taison would be a teenager as of feb 2 2006. God bless anyone that relates to this. Youre in my prayers
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My aunt died. By her own hand.
It was sad. I was very young. This didn’t really hit me until I got older. She was gay and as I got older I realized I am too. We will never know why she did what she did. But I could have definitely been there for her and being that she would have been several years older than I am she could have been there for me in ways that not many people can understand. I will never know how she got to how she got and possibly how she could have got out of it. I look forward. -
My little sister died at 11 months. She was really sweet for a baby. I was really upset and heartbroken. I have heard things done by Brad Paisley and other artists, but none like this. It's like Kenny knows how we feel. Thank you is all I have to say. Thank you, Kenny Chesney.
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My husband died last month. 54 years old, 3 days before his birthday. I am completely heartbroken and I hear so many songs that have pieces that I relate to but nothing like this. My husband was fine, a little achy. He went to the ER and they said he had Lyme Disease. He was put on Doxycycline and it destroyed his liver. He got worse and worse and 3 weeks later he died during what should have been a successful transplant. Death is not expected but this was so UNEXPECTED. I think about how lucky I am to have wonderful memories to hold on to but I am so sad that I will never have him again. I don't like my new life. I don't want my life like this. I will always love him.
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I lost my daughter and her 2 very close friends 3 weeks before their high school graduation in a car accident. Was not there fault, infact they were three very good girls just going about there business and was hit from behind and sent acrossed a highway mediam into a tractor trailer. All 3 girls gone in a flash and 1 of there guy best friends left on this Earth to grieve and say why me about being left here to face the grieving he was going to have in his heart along with many severe injuries, and to grieve mentally for his friends. This song actually helps me to feel that (I'll see you again someday). And I hold on to that lyric in my mind and heart each and everyday. It is the most horrible way to lose anyone especially a child and at the most exciting time in their life as they would have been walking down that isle and getting there high school diploma that they worked so very hard for, for 13 years of there life. And they never got the chance to experience that because their lives were cut so short for no apparent reason.Now they are "The 3 Angels". I thank you for this song that I listen to very very often.
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My son died from a car accident Feb 21, 2005.I never got to hold his hand ,it was a shock.very good boy,just turned 18 and gave him a car.Someone went through a stop sign Nd that was it.Taking just like that on his way home from town.Air bag never come out.I wrote kenny Cheney cause my son loved his music,and then that song came out the same year on my mother's birthday Nov 8,2005 I think anyway it did.The song that touch my heart and still does.Even if kenny Chesney never read my letter,it was right timing for me.
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This song hits me super hard. When I was 4, my little brother was rushed to the hospital, at the time I didn’t know what was going on, and neither did he, he was only two. By the next day, he had died of minengitus. This is the song that we played at his funeral and one of the only things I remember from that time. I will always remember him, and even though I didn’t know what happened then, I miss him so much now.
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This makes me sad and cry I lost a son at the age of 4 due to a rare type of cancer after 6 months. Then a few years later I lost a baby girl after 3 days later.so when I hear that song I do wonder what they would be like right now
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Awesome song. Got me thru sudden death car crash of my wife and daughter. One year married just getting custody of my daughter into finally a stable home and just two days before moving into our new bought home.
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