If I Were a Better Man Lyrics

If I were a commoner with a common name

Would you love me just the same

If I were a conqueror

That rode against Charlemagne

Would you save me in time with all the saints

If I were a better man

Maybe I'd understand

What it takes

To bear this heartache

You cut me to pieces

Into captions

By your captains

Of your armies

You always win the war

With your battleships

If I were a carpenter

And built with my hands a frame

Would you let it carry you your days

If I were a better man

Maybe I'd understand

What it takes

To bury this heartache

You cut me to pieces

Into captions

By your captains

Of your poetry

You always win the war

With your battleships