If I Were In Love    March 1977
 

If I were in love

I might write a love song

If you understood

You might sing along

If I was a lover

the kind that writes poems

You and I might make a home

 

Beyond the thoughts of older goals

Eyes held into each other's souls

Together striving towards the whole

 

If you felt inside

That you had to be free

I would try not to disagree

And if you liked the clear days

and I liked the rain

I would try to accept the sun's flame

 

and even on those cloudy days

we'd lock each other in the gaze

That lovers often use to embrace

 

But when that will be

Is so hard to see

That I will not let it trouble me

So I'll just keep on living

Till the future is now

And someday we may meet somehow

 

Beyond the thoughts of older goals

Eyes held into each other's souls

together striving towards the whole