written by David Gates (1971)



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

You're all that's led me to



And when my love for life is running dry

You come and pour yourself for 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 tonight

I'd spend the end with you

And when the world was due



Then one by one the stars would all go out

Then you and I would simply fly away