IF I HAD A DAY
If I had a day Mama,
I’d tell you I loved you
I’d tell L___ I sure couldn’t meet him for dinner,
I’d stretch my body out really really well - to feel good
I’d watch the dawn
I’d tell you sometimes I’m clueless, Mama,
sometimes I’m clueless,
But I’ve had a good life,
I’ve had a really good life, Mama,
If I had a day.
IF I HAD A YEAR, MAMA,
If I had a year,
I’d produce the best ever seasonal blessings
the world’s ever seen.
I’d bless this place, Mama,
I’d really give this to people, Mama --
I’d give it my everything,
If I had a year.
IF I HAD FIVE YEARS, MAMA,
If I had five years,
I’d take some birds under my wing, mama,
I’d take some birds under my wing,
and I’d show them how to live really well, Mama,
in a beautiful place,
in an Earth we share, Mama.
I see land and country, dawns, soil rich with frost, heaving rich, Mama
If I had five years.
IF I HAD TEN YEARS, MAMA,
If I had ten years,
I’d have a child, Mama -
Just for the experience, I’d have a child
with a woman, and be there for the birth,
I’d have a child, Mama,
If I had ten years.
IF I HAD TWENTY YEARS, MAMA --
If I had twenty years,
I’d make my whole family about our purpose --
As a family, we would lift something up in the world --
something together, we’d lift it up, something bigger than me.
IF I HAD FIFTY YEARS, MAMA --
-- And I do have fifty years --
If I had fifty years,
i don’t know what I’d do.
I’d give it all back, Mama --
I’d give it all away,
I’d give it all back to You, Mama. I’d give it back to you.
