If I Could - Gordon Lightfoot

作曲：Gordon Lightfoot

If I could sing like the poets

and kings of this world

If I could rise like the wind

or the tides of the sea

I would sing you to sleep

my love with sweet melody

And let you dream away till the morning light

Returned again

To take you away from me

If I could speak with

the tongues of the masters of old

If I could tame all the

fleeting perceptions I hold

Would I stand in the marketplace before you

To be shouted down without any warning

At all to be stood by the wall

And shot by the man in blue

If I could run with the grace of

a Sun colored stallion

If I could fly like the great

silver jets in the morning

If I caused the wind to change

with one wave of my hand

And if I could play the final symphony

And set it free

Would it mean anything to you

If I could stand like

a rusty old man in his armor

If I could ride the steed

that he rode in his time

I would turn his head away to the river

And let him wander

through the meadow grass

Wild and free

For everyone to see

If I could sing like the poets

and kings of this world

If I could rise like the wind

or the tides of the sea

I would sing you to sleep

my love with sweet melody

And let you dream away till the morning light

Returned again

To take you away from me