If There Were Time

If there were time

Oh, I would buy you a ribbon of rain

And a silver-tongued nightingale

To sing out your name

If there were time

Oh, I would fly you across the room

Then I'd carry you back again

Through the afternoon

If there were time

Wouldn't we have a time?

And wouldn't we set the stars to dancing

With our heartbeats keeping time?

If there were time

Oh, I would wake you when the snowfall comes

Then we'd watch those flakes dissolve again

Beneath the winter sun

But time is a messenger

That comes and goes so fast

And while thinking of the good times

All our good times have passed