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