The song reached number 2 on the Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, behind Sawyer Brown's "Thank God for You", and number 11 on the Canadian RPM country Tracks chart in 1993.

It is one of their best known songs, peaking at number 16 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart.

The narrator tells his former romantic interest that he can't change the past, and that there is no way to know what their relationship could have become.

Tommy had found a photograph of his great-grandfather, Nathan, with a woman he met during World War II, named Clarice.

After Michael and Tommy leave, Nathan is walking through the nursing home hallways when he passes an elderly woman.

As Clarice and Nathan reunite, the video then flashes back to show them as younger versions of themselves sharing a kiss.