If I Loved You

If I Loved You - John Raitt/Chorus

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

Well anyway

You don't love me

That's what you said wasn't it

Yes

You're a funny kid

Don't remember meetin' a girl like you

Say

Are you tryin'

To get me to marry you

No

Oh then what's puttin' into my head

I wonder what it'd be like

What

Nothing

I know what it'd be like

It'd be awful

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

And 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