If I Had A Reason - Rory Gallagher

If I had a reason I’d tell you what it is

Must I explain how I feel

I’ve tried and I’ve tried to make it so clear

But my time is just wasted I fear

Well it’s only an old song but it serves it’s purpose so well

By the cry in your voice I can tell

When you sing there’s a feeling behind the words

That brings it all back again

I’m reaching, I’m reaching, while you slip away

I’m searching for words I can say

I’m listening, I’m listening, tryin' not to hear

You say that we might meet some day

There’s a picture that’s faded and curling from it’s frame

Of a face that smiles patiently

It might smile forever to make me feel better

But I just might wait to see

Oh I’m reaching, I’m reaching while you slip away

I’m searching for words I can’t say

I’m listening, I’m listening tryin' not to hear

You say that we might meet some day

There’s answers to questions that we both wanna know

But those answers keep evading me

There’s rhymes and there’s reasons, there’s rights and there’s wrongs

For being what you are to me

If I had a a reason I’d tell you what it is

Would you do the same thing for me?

«Cause the minute you go there’s one thing I know

That the day will mean nothing for me