Pop Song 525 of 1000 'If' Bread 1971

Pop Song 525 of 1000 'If' Bread 1971Show more

Watch their performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQyKMueMFGk

The narrator expresses a desire to capture the beloved in a painting to show the beauty of the relationship, to be with them in two places at once, and to be with them through the end of the world. Thus, the song underscores the emotional intensity of the relationship, and the commitment to remain connected for eternity. The chorus is particularly powerful in emphasizing the narrator's vow to stay together forever, suggesting that their love can outlast even death.

If a picture paints a thousand words
Then why can't I paint you?
The words will never show
The you I've come to know
If a face could launch a thousand ships
Then where am I to go?
There's no one home but you
You're all that's left me too
And when my love for life is running dry
You come and pour yourself on me
If a man could be two places at one time
I'd be with you
Tomorrow and today
Beside you all the way
If the world should stop revolving
Spinning slowly down to die
I'd spend the end with you
And when the world was through
Then one by one the stars would all go out
Then you and I would simply fly away