Three Days is an American TV movie directed by Michael Switzer and starring Kristin Davis and Tim Meadows. It premiered on Fox Family in 2001 on their 25 Days of Christmas programming block.
Ten years ago, Andrew Farmer (Reed Diamond) married his childhood sweetheart, Beth (Kristin Davis). Now Andrew is a high-powered literary agent, and his relationship with his wife has not fared as well. After a marital argument about his infidelity, Beth runs out at midnight and, trying to retrieve their neighbors' dog in the middle of the street, she is killed by a car, just days before Christmas. An angel, Lionel (Tim Meadows), gives Andrew the chance to relive the last three days as if his wife was alive. There's a catch: he cannot change the fate of his wife. There's only one gift he can give to save her life and he only has a very short time to figure out what that gift is.
The original story and teleplay was conceived and written by Robert Tate Miller while living in North Hollywood, CA. "I was inspired by Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life," Miller said. "I wanted to write a story with heart and, unlike most scripts which take many weeks to hammer out, Three Days came very quickly. It was as if the story wrote itself."
Three days that I dread to see arrive
Three days that I hate to be alive
Three days filled with tears and sorrow
Yesterday, today and tomorrow
There are three days I know that I'll be blue
Three days that I'll always dream of you
And it does no good to wish these days would end
'Cause the same three days start over again
Three days that I dread be alive
Three days that I hate to see arrive
Three days filled with tears and sorrow
Yesterday, today and tomorrow
There are three days I know that I'll be blue
Three days that I'll always dream of you
And it does no good to wish these days would end
'Cause the same three days start over again
Three days that I dread to see arrive
Three days that I hate to be alive
Three days filled with tears and sorrow
Yesterday, today and tomorrow
Three days
Three days
(Carly Simon)
If I have known you only three days
Then how will I remember you in ten?
But I could swear I'll love you always
And if the gods will please be kind
Darling, I'll be with you soon, soon again.
And on the road you have some good times
But when the show is over you go home
And it hurts me so to leave you behind,
And lordy I feel lonesome,
Lonesome for the you I might have known.
You'll be in L.A. in the morning
And I'll be in London by sundown
But when I sing, my song is filled with longing
And the memory of your last look
The way you took me by suprise
And the way you turned my head around
Three days that I hate to see arrive
Three days that I hate to be alive
Three days filled with tears and sorrow
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
There are three days I know I will be blue
Three days I'll dream of you
And it does no good to wish these days to end
'Cause the same three days start over again
Three days that I dread to see arrive
Three days that I hate to be alive
Three days filled with tears and sorrow
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
Wake up, what you been dreaming about
I ain't got a lot to say, but I could talk to you for hours
The way you talk, the way that you breathe
The way that your spirit moves into me
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up
Chorus:
I got three days to wash the road out of my soul
I got three days to love you out of control
And I wish I had a lifetime to hold onto you this way
Love can do some healing in just three days
Yeah, and hold me and help me understand
Why on earth I have to be such a stupid man
To live the way I do, dream the dreams I dream
So far away from you, yeah
Hold me, hold me, hold me, hold me, hold me, hold me
Chorus
Three days and nights to put some life back in this man
I ain't holding nothing back
You got all I am
Hearts and souls and dreams in the plam of your hand
Chorus
Three days that I hate to see arrive
Three days that I hate to be alive
Three days filled with tears and sorrow
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
There are three days I know I will be blue
Three days I'll dream of you
And it does no good to wish these days to end
'Cause the same three days start over again
Three days that I dread to see arrive
Three days that I hate to be alive
Three days filled with tears and sorrow
Three days was the morning. My focus three days old. My head, it
landed to the sounds of cricket bows... I am proud man anyway... Covered now
by three days...
Three ways was the morning. Three lovers, in three ways. We knew when
she landed, three days she'd stay. I am a proud man anyway... Covered now by
three days...
We saw shadows of the morning light the shadows of the evening sun till
the shadows and the light were one. Shadows of the morning light the shadows
of the evening sun till the shadows and the light were one...
True hunting is over. No herds to follow. Without game, men prey on
each other. The family weakens by the bite we swallow...
True leaders gone, of land and people. We choose no kin but adopted
strangers. The family weakens by the length we travel... All of us with
wings... All of us with wings... All of us with wings! All of us with wings!
All of us with wings! All of us with wings!
Erotic Jesus lays with his Marys. Loves his Marys. Bits of puzzle,
hitting each other. All now with wings! "Oh my Marys! Never wonder... Night
is shelter for nudity's shiver..." All now with wings...
I walk away, it seems it's like a bad day
On the hill, I stand and stare away
Hoping for a brighter day
And I stand staring there
And I stand staring there today
I feel the rain fall upon my face
And wash away the things I feel inside
Turmoil is what moves the tides
And I stand staring there
And I stand staring there
And I begin another day
You say you hurt and the cut has been too deep
The blood that flows inside your soul has died
Cancer is the hurt inside
And I can't walk away and I can't show the pain
And I can't let it go and I can't let it go away
It's another day, the morning comes so bright
I feel lifted, now, the clouds have passed
Three days that I dread to see you arrive
Three days that I hate to be alive
Three days filled with tears and sorrow
Yesterday, today and tomorrow
There are three days I know I'll be blue
Three days that I'll always dream of you
It does no good to wish these days would end
'Cause these same three days start over again
(Three days, three days)
Three days that I dread to see you arrive
(Three days, three days)
Three days that I hate to be alive
(Three days, three days)
Three days filled with tears and sorrow
Yesterday, today and tomorrow
There are three days I know I'll be blue
Three days that I'll always dream of you
It does no good to wish these days would end
'Cause these same three days start over again
(Three days, three days)
Three days that I dread to see you arrive
(Three days, three days)
Three days that I hate to be alive
(Three days, three days)
Three days filled with tears and sorrow
Yesterday, today and tomorrow
(Three days)
Three days
One, two, three days
Three days
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Three days
One, two, three days
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