Sarah Mary Chadwick - I Could Have Lived Without You lyrics

rate me

and I could've lived without you

I could, I did for years

and I could've faced the mornings

and I could've held back tears

and I couldn't lived without you

I could, I did for years

and I could've ignored mornings

stayed in bed instead

and just like the man who's blind

doesn't miss the sky

and I could've got by

and I could've filled up seasons

and I could've drunk them dry

and I could've thought up reasons

all of my life

and I could've worn a smile

in garish painted red

and I could've filled up evenings

howl to the moon instead

and I hardly mourn the fact

that my arms could never fly

and I could've got by

and I didn't want a lover

and I didn't want a thing

and I could've seen the others

laid there and felt nothing

and I could've kept on drinking

and I could've played in time

and I could've shared my thinking

with the strangers I sat beside

and just like a life that's bliss

can't conceive of crime

and I would've got by

and just like a grudge I hold

doesn't need the light

and I would've

and I would've got by

but you are to me

like salt is to the sea

like blossoms are to trees

like loose leaves are to breeze

like travel ??

like ice belonged to cold/coals

and my life was bleak and bare

before you, my love, were there

and if I'd never seen a star

a twinkle I couldn't describe

but I would've

and I would've got by