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
Or the fall of a wave hitting the sand
The tides creaping up on the beach like a theif
Afraid to be caught stealing 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

(Billy: I don't need you or anyone to help me. Got it figured out for myself. What are we, just a couple of specs of nothing. Look up there)

Oh you can't even count the stars in the sky
And the skies so big the sea looks small
And two little people you and I
We don't count at all

(Billy: I can just see myself, kinda scrawny and pale)
Licking at my food
And lovesick like any other guy
I'd throw away my sweater and dress up like a dude
In a dickie, and a collar and a tie
If I loved

Yet 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.

