IF
gathering my nerve
I had to express everything I meant
I used perfect words
to terrify you
If I had to say what I'd give away
I knew I could not repeat it
If I had to say what I'd give away
I don't know if I could speak it
If you were here
I wrote from my soul
the honest, brutal truth
things I couldn't say
audibly again
you asked what it said
I lost all my nerve
If I had to say what I'd give away
I knew I could not repeat it
If I had to say what I'd give away
I don't know if I could speak it
If you were here
I spilled all my guts
only on paper
I knew as soon as the
pen fell from my grasp
I would not repeat
any utterance
If I had to say what I'd give away
I knew I could not repeat it
If I had to say what I'd give away
I don't know if I could speak it
If you were here
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