If I Loved You

If I loved you

Time and again I would try to say

All I'd want you to know

If I loved you

Words wouldn't come in an easy way

Round in circles I'd go

Longin' to tell you, but afraid and shy

I'd let my golden chances pass me by

Soon you'd leave me

Off you would go in the mist of day

Never, never to know how I loved you

If I loved you

You can't hear a sound, not the turn of a leaf

Nor the fall of a wave hittin' the sand

The tide's creepin' up on the beach like a thief

Afraid to be caught stealin' the land

On a night like this I start to wonder

What life is all about

And I always say two heads are better than one to figure it out

I don't need you or anyone to help me

Got it figured out for myself

What are we?

Just a couple o' specks a nothin'

Look up there

How ya can't even count the stars in the sky

And the sky's so big the sea looks small

And two little people, you and I

We don't count at all

I can just see myself

Kinda scrawny and pale, picking at my food

And love-sick like any other guy

I'd throw away my sweater, and dress up like a dude

In a dicky and a collar and a tie

If I loved you

But somehow I can see

Just exactly how I'd be

If I loved you

Time and again I would try to say

All I'd want you to know

If I loved you

Words wouldn't come in an easy way

Round in circles I'd go

Longin' to tell you, but afraid and shy

I'd let my golden chances pass me by

Soon you'd leave me

Off you would go in the mist of day

Never, never to know

How I loved you

If I loved you