If I Ever Do See You Again - Greg Brown

We walk through the park down by the river

I kissed you underneath the linden tree

Your eyes said you would love me forever

Your mouth said «let's go home now, hurry please»

Sometimes I still see your little child

That we never had running to you

He is blond and firm of limb, but when I call out to him

He smiles and disappears into the blue

I can taste your softly urgent kisses

Hear your voice say «will you do everything?»

Smell the rain that falls on pines and birches

And see the way your summer dress would cling

Twenty years a couple busted phone calls

Letters that I had nowhere to send

I’d have to laugh I’d have to cry, looking deep into your eyes

If I ever do see you again

I’d have to laugh I’d have to cry, looking deep into your eyes

If I ever do see you again