If I Wanted To - Melissa Etheridge

I'm on the brink I can barely think With all of these thoughts Running through my head Wonderin' if I did you wrong No way, I did you wrong Every night, I try to justify All the angry things I said Oh, but I can't take 'em back No, I can't do that I was wrong, oh but now you're gone And I can't hide what I feel inside And just stop lovin' you Even if I wanted to I can't hold on But lettin' go Is something I can't do, is something I can't do Even if I wanted to All the times I sat and watched you cry When I should have held you close Made sure that you know How much I cared But I was never there I was wrong And now you've moved on I can't hide what I feel inside And just stop lovin' you Even if I wanted to I can't hold on But lettin' go Is something I can't do, is something I can't do Even if I wanted to Even if I wanted to I can't hide what I feel inside And just stop lovin' you Even if I wanted to I can't hold on But lettin' go Is something I can't do, is something I can't do Even if I wanted to Even if I wanted to

I found myself awake I could hear em down the hall She was not the one I loved But she was there to break my fall So I took a steady grip And I took my courage down When I landed hard I knew she could hear the sound So honey please Take me back to bed Yeah honey please Rest my weary head, down on your chest Cause if you wanted me to stay why did you shuffle out the door And if you wanted me to go why did you come on back for more I'd be your reason to pretend it didn't hurt to be alone Our days were never long But our nights were always full And we owed all that we saw To the chemicals in full I said I couldn't love She said she didn't care So I took her at her word And gave her my weight to bear So honey please Take me back to bed Yeah honey please Rest my weary head, down on your chest Cause if you wanted me to stay why did you shuffle out the door And if you wanted me to go why did you come on back for more I'd be your reason to pretend it didn't hurt to be alone

Windshields Kissed with snow On this Endless interstate Over the fields We go laughing All the way We sing love Love, love It's glorious Friends And family near No more judgments No more fear All is calm All is bright Everyone Will hold This light And sing love Love love It's glorious Sleep in heavenly In heavenly Sleep in heavenly In heavenly Believe in heavenly In heavenly peace I have heard The angels Ssweetly singing O'er the plain And I've heard The mountains Echoing Their Sweet refrain They sing Love, love Love, love Love It's glorious Love, love Love It's glorious Love, love Love It's glorious Sleep in heavenly In heavenly Sleep in heavenly In heavenly Believe in heavenly In heavenly peace

I played the fool today And I just dream of vanishing into the crowd Longing for home again But home is a feeling I buried in you I'm alright, I'm alright It only hurts when I breathe And I can't ask for things to be still again No, I can't ask if I could walk through the world in your eyes Longing for home again But home is a feeling I buried in you I'm alright, I'm alright It only hurts when I breathe I'm alright, I'm alright It only hurts when I breathe My window through which nothing hides And everything sings I'm counting the signs And cursing the miles in between Home, home is a feeling I buried in you That I buried in you I'm alright, I'm alright It only hurts when I breathe I'm alright, I'm alright It only hurts when I breathe When I breathe Yeah, it only hurts when I breathe When I breathe Oh, it only hurts when I breathe

Everybody's got, A pain inside. Imaginary wounds, They fight to hide. How can I hate them? When everybody's got a pulse. I dream in a world, That wants my soul. That tells me if I hate, I can control. But I don't believe it. I cannot conceive it. Cause everybody's got a pulse I am human, I am love and my heartbeats with my blood. Love will always win Underneath the skin. Everybody's got a pulse. Once again I hang my head to cry. I can't find a reason why they died. We will find the answer, Blowing in the wind. Everybody's got a pulse. I am human, I am love and my heartbeats with my blood. Love will always win underneath the skin. Everybody's got a pulse. Who ya gonna hate now When there is no one left but you? Who ya gonna gun down If you can't feel the truth that is inside of us, inside our blood inside our pulse. I am human, I am love and my heartbeats with my blood. Love will always win underneath the skin. I am human, I am love and my heartbeats in my blood. Love will always win underneath the skin. I am human, I am love and my heartbeats in my blood. Love will always win underneath the skin. Everybody's got a pulse. I am human, I am love and my heartbeats with my blood. Love will always win underneath the skin. Everybody's got a pulse Everybody, everybody Hands up, hands up We're alive Love will always win Everybody's got a pulse.

They don't much care for you No they don't like your kind The way you look walk Or the way you talk The way you always speak your mind But you want to be my friend You're not anything like them You can show me things I've never seen You say ooo child what a waste if we never took a taste Of everything we find in between CHORUS Ooo you make me nervous Ooo you make me want to run away and hide Ooo you make me nervous When you look at me I just can't lie Ooo you make me nervous tonight Feels so wrong and feels so right feels like insanity I keep acting strange hoping that I'll change Waking in a sweat from a burning dream And then look at all my friends I keep on pleasing them Caught up in the chaos of their minds Ooo child the fear I have Keeps me bound and keeps me gagged Keeps me pushing harder all the time Ooo you make me nervous Ooo you make me want to run away and hide Ooo you make me nervous When you look at me I just can't lie I want to shovel all the blame I want to shoot out all the lights I want to call you names and start a fight Because you make me nervous tonight Heart pounds hands wet mouth dry I shake I scream I cry No eat no sleep all night I build my lonely cell with secrets I can't tell Frozen in my fright Ooo you make me nervous tonight You make me nervous You make me nervous You make me nervous Chorus

I saw you with your new friends, you wear them so well Broken shoes and loose ends, gee you look swell Me I'm drinking too much coffee, and I'm smoking cigarettes I'm a deputy of habit, I just can't forget I'm only lonely when I'm driving in my car I'm only lonely after dark I'm only lonely when I watch my tv I'm only lonely occasionally I saw you with your envoy, a consenting adult Technique in moderation, but vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers to exile in the night I'm guess I'm just addicted to the pain of delight I'm only lonely when I'm driving in my car I'm only lonely after dark I'm only lonely when I watch my tv I'm only lonely occasionally Occasionally Occasionally