Gordon Lightfoot - If I Could Lyrics
If I could sing like the poets and kings of this worldIf I could rise like the wind or the tides of the seaI would sing you to sleep my love with sweet melodyAnd let you dream away till the morning light returned againTo take you away from meIf I could speak with the tongues of the masters of oldIf I could tame all the fleeting perceptions I holdWould I stand in the marketplace beforeTo be shouted down without any warning at all, to be stood by the wallAnd shot by the man in blueIf I could run with the grace of a sun-colored stallionIf I could fly like the great silver jets in the morningIf I caused the wind to change with one wave of my handAnd if I could play the final symphony and set it freeWould it mean anything to youIf I could stand like a rusty old man in his armorIf I could ride the steed that he rode in his timeI would turn his head away to the riverAnd let him wander through the meadow grass, wild and freeFor everyone to seeIf I could sing like the poets and kings of this worldIf I could rise like the wind or the tides of the seaI would sing you to sleep my love with sweet melodyAnd let you dream away till the morning light returned againTo take you away from me
