If I could be other than I am
I’d take your photograph, take your hand
Follow you in my mind’s eye
See your face in the morning sky
Oh, you’re beautiful
And if I could be other than I am
I’d take you all through this great dark land
Wander from the well-worn path
Find each other in the aftermath
Oh, you’re beautiful
And I don’t know why, and I never will
But I can’t be other than I am
If I took you in my arms tonight
It would be all wrong, but that’s all right
I know a place you’ve never been
All full of things that you’ve never seen
And oh, you’re beautiful
If I took you in my arms tonight
It would be all wrong, but that’s all right
Hide from the hail storm
I can’t keep my word but I can keep you warm
Oh, you’re beautiful
But if I never have then I never will
I can’t take you in my arms tonight
And if you were anybody else
You’d say all’s well that ends and I’d say, well
I never knew you but I wish that I had
And if I ever do I would be so glad
Because you’re beautiful