Yeah, yeah
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If I didn't have you
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If I didn't have you to hold me tight
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(If I didn't have you)
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If I didn't have you to lie with at night
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(When I'm feeling blue)
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If I didn't have you to share my sights
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(Share my sights)
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And to kiss me and dry my tears when I cry
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Well I really think that I would...
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Have somebody else
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(If I didn't have you)
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If I didn't have you, someone else would do
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Your love is one in a million
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(One in a million)
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You couldn't buy it at any price
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(Can't buy love)
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But of the 9.999 hundred thousand other loves
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Statistically, some of them would be equally nice
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(Equally nice)
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Or maybe not as nice but, say, smarter than you
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Or dumber but better at sport or tracing
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I'm just saying
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(I really think that I would)
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Probably
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(Have somebody else)
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Yeah
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(If I didn't have you)
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If I didn't have you someone else would do
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(Someone else would surely do)
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If I were a rich man
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Diddle-diddle-diddle-diddle-diddle-diddle-diddle-ee
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I guess I would be with a surgeon or a model
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Or a rellie of the Royals or a Kennedy
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Or a nymphomonical exhibitionist heiress to a large chain of hotels
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If I were a rich man, maybe I would fiddle
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Fiddle-diddle-diddle with the rich man girls
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I'm not saying that I'd not love you if I was wealthy or handsome
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But realistically there's lots of fish in the sea
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And if I had a different rod I would concievably land some
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Even though I am fiscally consistantly pitiable
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And considerably less Brad Pitt than Brad Pitiful
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Am I really so poor and ugly that you reckon only you could possibly love me?
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And I
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(Really think that I would)
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Probably
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(Have somebody else)
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(If I didn't have you)
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If I didn't have you, someone else would do
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(Someone else would surely do)
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And look, I'm not undervaluing what we've got when I say
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That given the role chaos inevitably plays in the inherently flawed notion of "fate"
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It's obtuse to deduce that I've found my soulmate at the age of seventeen
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It's just mathematically unlikely that at a university in Perth
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I happened to stumble on the one girl on Earth specifically designed for me
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And if I may conjecture a further objection, love is nothing to do with destined perfection
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The connection is strengthened, the affection simply grows over time
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Like a flower
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Or a mushroom
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Or a guinea pig
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Or a vine
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Or a sponge
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Or bigotry
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... or a banana
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And love is made more powerful by the ongoing drama of shared experience
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And the synergy of a kind of symbiotic empathy or... something
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So I trust it would go without saying
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That I would feel really very sad
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If tomorrow you were to fall off something high
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Or catch something bad
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But I'm just saying
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I don't think you're special
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I-I mean, I think your special
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But you fall within a bell curve
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I mean, I'm just saying I
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(Really think that I would)
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Probably
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(Have somebody else)
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I think you are unique and beautiful
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(Unique and beaut)
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You make me happy just by being around
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(Being around)
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But objectively, you would have to agree that baby when I found you
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Options were relatively thin on the ground
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(Thin on the ground)
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You're lovely but there must be girls as lovely as you
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And maybe more open to spanking or table tennis
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I'm just saying
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(Really think that I would)
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Probably
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(Have somebody else)
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I mean I reckon it's pretty likely that if, for example
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My first girlfriend, Jackie, hadn't dumped me
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After I kissed Winston's ex-girlfriend Neah at Steph's party back in 1993
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And our variables would probably have been altered by the absence of that event
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To have meant the advent of a tangential narrative in which we don't meet
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Which is to say there exists a theoretical hypothetical parallel life
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Where what is is not as it is and I am not your husband and you are not my wife
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And I am a stuntman living in LA
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Married to a small, blonde Portuguese skier
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Who, when she's not training
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Does abstract painting
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Practices yoga
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And brews her own beer
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And really like making home movies
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And suffers neck down alopecia
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But with all my heart and all my mind, I know one th |