If

If a picture paints a thousand words
Then why can't I paint you?
The words will never show
The you I've come to know.

If a face could launch a thousand ships
Then where am I to go?
There's no one home but you
And now you've left me too.

And when, my love for life is running dry
You come and pour yourself on me

If a man could be two places at one time
I'd be with you.
Tomorrow and today
Beside you all the way.

If the world should stop revolving
Spinning slowly down to die
I'd spend the end with you
And when the world was through
Then one by one, the stars would all go out
Then you and I, would simply fly away. . .

(lyrics by David Gates, sung by the music group Bread)