Thursday, February 28, 2008
If I Could
Today’s post is a song I wrote more than ten years ago.
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I’ve never played this song for anyone in the real world. But right now in my life I feel the last ten years of playing this song in private by myself have been nothing but practice for the person in my heart, now, I would play this song for if I could.
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This is a guitar song and the chord progression is simple. There’s no modulation or key change. It’s just four verses of the same changes:
GM7
GM7 Am7
CM7 Bm7
GM7
CM7 Bm7
Am7
GM7
I kept the chords the same so that the lyrical change in the final verse would be highlighted.
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When I play this song now I play it with only one person in mind. Though I wrote this song ten years before I met the person I play it for now, I will forever think of it as her song.
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If I—
If I could
Give you everything
I would
But can anyone
Give anyone
Anything?
If I—
If I could
Live my life for you
I would
But can anyone
Live their life
For anyone?
If I—
If I could
Sing a song for you
I would
But can anyone
Sing a song
For anyone?
I did—
I did, I did
I sang this song for you
I did
I sang this song
And I sang this song
Just for you
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