Sarah Mary Chadwick

I Could Have Lived Without You
and I could've lived without youI could, I did for yearsand I could've faced the morningsand I could've held back tearsand I couldn't lived without youI could, I did for yearsand I could've ignored morningsstayed in bed insteadand just like the man who's blinddoesn't miss the skyand I could've got byand I could've filled up seasonsand I could've drunk them dryand I could've thought up reasonsall of my lifeand I could've worn a smilein garish painted redand I could've filled up eveningshowl to the moon insteadand I hardly mourn the factthat my arms could never flyand I could've got byand I didn't want a loverand I didn't want a thingSongtexteand I could've seen the otherslaid there and felt nothingand I could've kept on drinkingand I could've played in timeand I could've shared my thinking with the strangers I sat besideand just like a life that's bliss can't conceive of crimeand I would've got byand just like a grudge I holddoesn't need the lightand I would've and I would've got bybut you are to melike salt is to the sealike blossoms are to treeslike loose leaves are to breezelike travel ??like ice belonged to cold/coalsand my life was bleak and barebefore you, my love, were thereand if I'd never seen a stara twinkle I couldn't describebut I would've and I would've got by Aus Songtexte Mania