I Do - Paul Heaton

In the 60s and the 70s

Before we’d even met

I took those pin-ups to my heart

Cause I hadn’t found you yet

In back of cab in the streets of Rome

I drunkly called a name

On 13th floor in Paris hotel

I looked north west in vain

In bus shelter and phone box

Whilst piss the piss ran round my feet

I caught wrong bus, rang wrong number

Cause my life was incomplete

So in case you think it wrong to ask

In case I don’t ask you

In case it may just cross your mind

In case it don’t, I do

In case you think it’s up to me

In case I need a clue

In case you want that bended knee

In case you don’t, I do

In pick-up truck on dusty road

The wheel your only friend

What kept that big wheel turning

Was the thought of you at end

On desert highway hitch-hiking

Thumbing from A to B

I knew not where I headed

Before my map to thee

At foot of the Alps in Switzerland

I yodelled through the rain

And it sort of kept me going

To think you’d probably do the same

So in case you think it wrong to ask

In case I don’t ask you

In case it may just cross your mind

In case it don’t, I do

In case you think it’s up to me

In case I need a clue

In case you want that bended knee

In case you don’t, I do

Now again we’re miles apart

We talk but do not touch

Water, food and alcohol

I miss them half as much

Cause halfway up that mountain pass

No compass or no guide

Still don’t stand me steady for

When you I’m not beside

So if you need a shelter

I guess I’ll need one too

If you want the same address

Even if you don’t, I do

Even if you don’t, I do

Even if you don’t, I do

Even if you don’t, I do

Even if you don’t, I do

Even if you don’t, I do

I do, I do

Even if you don’t, I do

I do, I do, I do, I do, I do, I do