A song with a tender pro-life message has reached the top 5 on iTunes’ chart for country music less than three weeks after its release.
Eighteen-year-old Rachel Holt sings “I Was Gonna Be” from the perspective of an aborted child.
The chorus of the song—“All I wanted was a chance/To learn to love and laugh and dance/But I was gone before I arrived/Sent back to heaven on a starlight flight”—is paired with photos of baby bottles, baby shoes, and toys that hauntingly disappear in the music video.
The song leapfrogged over Zach Bryan’s “Pink Skies” and Luke Combs’ “Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma” on iTunes. Songwriter Chris Wallin—who has written hit songs for country music stars Trace Adkins, Garth Brooks, Kenny Chesney, and others—said he wrote the song without thinking…
