If ( David Gates )

If a picture paints a thousand words,
Then why can't i paint you?
The words would 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,
You're all that's left me to . . .

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
When the world was through . . .

Then one by one
The stars would all go out . . .
Then you and i
Would simply fly away!