If I Were You
If you could lend your coat to me,
And if they fit, your shoes;
Then let us go just one pace more,
And to me lend that face of yours,
Oh, what a change for all to see,
When I am you and you are me.
Imagine stepping out as you,
To then do all the things you do;
Approving looks to then receive,
When eyes can see, then eyes deceive.
Then, dearest, lend your thoughts and see,
Such change that you have made in me.
I can’t be you nor you be me,
I have to be what you can see;
But if I were but single day;
What you’re to me each every day,
Then I would love you as I do;
With lifelong passion, blessed and true.
I’ll wear your face but just one day,
That I can hear so many say;
‘How lovely; how I wish that I,
Could look like her until I die,’
But if I fail and be as me;
Then I shall live and live as me.