"Five Candles (You Were There)" is a song written and performed by Jars of Clay.

It is the second radio single from their 1997 studio album Much Afraid.

The song was initially written for the soundtrack to the motion picture Liar Liar, starring Jim Carrey.

A working title of the song during the writing and recording studio sessions was "The Wish", which fits in with the themes of Liar Liar, just as the eventual title, "Five Candles", as the story of the film revolves around the wish Max made as he blew out the five candles for his fifth birthday.

Written by Dan Haseltine, Charlie Lowell, Stephen Mason, Matt Odmark