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