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If You're Here

from I Knew A Girl Once by Ray Zimmerman

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If i was a writer
I would send you all my mail
But i'd deliberately underpay the postage

'Cos then I do believe
You'd have to return it to me
And then girl I would tell you of my motive

I'd say that I have had a dream
It was pure and it was sweet
We were sat upon the seat of a swing

That was hung beneath the pine
Suspended somehow like the time
But in your beauty I was blinded to the ending

And I would like to think
What I had written in that ink
Would make you run here all this way into my arms
'Cos I tried to live without you but I can't

And if you're here
To say we could be more
I would open, I would open up the door

If I was a sailor
I would sabotage my mast
And I'd be going nowhere fast but that would suit me

Because I would have planned
For my boat to float to land
And it would land upon the sand lined with palm trees

There would only be one villager
And that villager would be you
And then there would be 2 of us for the moment

And I would light a fire to keep us warm
As we made love through the raging storm
Then maybe there'd be more at least here's to hoping

I'd like to believe that you've been thinking of me
It's what keeps me bailing out the water from this leak
Cos I tried be strong without you but I'm weak

And if you're here
To point me to your shore
Then I would open I would open up the door

If i were a detective
I'd hope that you would be a thief
And I would catch you with your finger on the trigger

But the only thing you'd aim for
Would be all your hopes and dreams
You'd say come with me boy it seems there's something bigger

And if you're here
Your crimes won't matter anymore
I would open, I would open up the door

If I were an old man
And I were writing my last rites
Be writing all this life has written on my wall

To say I'm sorry
I never found the right profession
Though I had many in succession you will recall

Though I never gained the skills
To say I will I do I still
Love you more than any love that has been found

As I begin my last vocation
Take post at my final station
Before my last vacation comes around

Know I will spend my final hours , thinking of all the Autumn showers
Where I slowly ran my fingers through your hair
Hoping you'll be fine when I'm not there

If you're here
Scared of what might be in store
Know I would open I would open up the door

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from I Knew A Girl Once, released October 13, 2020

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