If You Want Me to - Gilbert O'Sullivan

First can I say that: How happy I’ve been having you here

others there were, have now gone, leaving the way clear

And yet for all that, I sense some reluctance on your part

Yes, you like were this is going, but not yet where it could start

No doubt what you have been through in the past can’t be easy

How someone you love so much walked out on you beats me

But given time if you think there’s a difference we could make

Why not at least let me try, even if, as I say:

I may look like man who at times can’t tell his beer from his wines

But you know that I love you,

if you want me to

Why do I feel when I knock on your door and you answer

Something about how you look, makes you look even grander

A word in my ear then, how words I keep meaning to keep out (?)

How can the more we get on, mean there is more to doubt

I may lose what I gain on the swing even when on it I cling

But you know that I love you,

if you want me to

if you want me to (if you want me to)

There’s no denying, if truth be told,

we have our separate ways

But one thing ('s) for sure, together is where it stays

As for the future, if you care to look, now might it be?

If there’s a case to be made, might it be made for me?

I may not have the presence of mind, something to which I’m resigned

But you know that I love you (love you)

If you want me to

(if you want me to)

If you want me to (if you want me to)