If I Could ft. Joshua Villa & Elizabeth Teeter Lyrics

Here's as much as I've figured out

You call me your shadow, right?

Think about it like this

When you turn on a light, what happens to the darkness?

I don't know. It goes away?

Yes! By moving through darkness, I have been able to stay here with you

But if I step into the light, then I'll have to, you know

Go

Go? Go where

I'm not sure

Still, I do miss the light

I imagine how good it would feel

How warm it would be

To lay out on a beach with a gentle breeze

Or to walk through a forest with ribbons of light shining through the trees

And the longer we talk, the more I see

They're still hazy, but they could be

Memories

Of another life, of a girl, of a pilot

Squinting into the horizon

Till sun all at once arrives in a golden burst

Oh, to fly again

If I could, that's what I'd do first

Really?

Absolutely. Does that surprise you?

A little. I mean, you told me about how you...

Of course. Crashing. There isn't a word for what that felt like

But flying, flying was my life

The way it made me feel

I don't think there's a word for that either

If I could, for a day

Step outside the shadows

I would fly far away

Oh the things I would do

And you would come too

Back in the cockpit

Pittsburgh to Paris

You'd play the music

I'd make us weightless

If I could

If I could, I would

If I could, then we'd leave today

Hand in hand

Never land

If I could

Oh, that sounds wonderful. What would we do next?

Actually, could we talk about something else?

Yes. Sorry, of course

Instead, let's talk about all the things we're going to do right here, together

Sure, but Grace, the sun is going to come up soon, and then

Way ahead of you

If it meant you could stay

I would board the windows

Always night, never day

Here inside, just us two

Memorize the melodies that you'd write

Just for me / Just me and you

Dee-dee-dee, dee-dee-dee, dee-dee-dee, dee-dee-dee

Here in our hideout

Worry and weather

Would never find us

I'd stay forever

If I could

If I could, I would

If I could, I would

Turn the lock, lose the key

Happily, if I could

That's a very pretty daydream

It's not a daydream

I'll shut out all the light and stay here with you as long as you'll let me

But you don't actually want to live like that

Stuck in this room, hiding from the sun

Sounds kind of nice, actually

Besides, as long as you're here, I'm not going anywhere

You're serious?

Of course I am

You're my only friend

That would be a really stupid thing to do, Grace

Hold on, are you mad at me?

As a shadow I tried to absorb, to imbibe all I hadn't seen

To stretch and envelop each heartache, each hiccup

Each Halloween

These imperfect and futile and precious and so very human things

You refuse to touch

God, I miss them so much

I reach, but I pass right through

What I'd give to be like you

How cruel that I've already lost

And you're the one with everything to lose

Cause instead, you'd rather

Rot here forever

Wasting in darkness

Me, I would never

If I could / You think it's easy, easy to be me

If I could, I would / You're just a shadow, imaginary

If I could

If I could, I would

You would what, Grace?

Stop it. You're just in my head anyway, and I want to stop now, so

You don't really still believe that, do you?

I don't know

I'd say I'm just about as real as you are

When was the last time you left this room?

When was the last time you spoke to someone who wasn't me?

It's not that I don't want to

Then why don't you?

It's not that simple, I just told you, I

Oh my god, enough with the pity party

Do you want to know what I see when I look in that mirror you hate so much?

Nothing but darkness and empty air

I have nothing, I am nothing

And you, Grace, you have everything, and you don't even want it

No worse than that, you resent it

I am trying, I am trying to get better, I am

Are you?

Cause it seems like you'd rather just hide in here and feel sorry for yourself until it's all over

Do you have any idea how unfair that is?

If I could, I would

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