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If You Were My Love Lyrics
Tonight there are no saviors
This night outside my window
Wasn't anyone's fault
When the moon rolls over the mountain
You are lost in your dreaming
Where is the wild, white rose?
I tried to explain it
To someone who was crying
If you were my love
My hands reach for something
For someone that could tell me
Wasn't anyone's fault
Not anyone's fault
With our crosses to bear
And our dreams that still live on
With our crosses to bear
And our dreams that still live on
If you were my love
However momentarily
Ooh ooh If I were the one
Who watched over your sleeping
You would never have been frightened
At all
At all
With our crosses to bear
And our dreams that still live on
With our crosses to bear
And our dreams that still live on
If you were my love
However momentarily
Ah ah If I were the one
Who watched over your sleeping
You would never have been frightened
At all
At all
At all
At all
Faithful
This night outside my window
Wasn't anyone's fault
When the moon rolls over the mountain
You are lost in your dreaming
Where is the wild, white rose?
I tried to explain it
To someone who was crying
If you were my love
My hands reach for something
For someone that could tell me
Wasn't anyone's fault
Not anyone's fault
With our crosses to bear
And our dreams that still live on
With our crosses to bear
And our dreams that still live on
If you were my love
However momentarily
Ooh ooh If I were the one
Who watched over your sleeping
You would never have been frightened
At all
At all
With our crosses to bear
And our dreams that still live on
With our crosses to bear
And our dreams that still live on
If you were my love
However momentarily
Ah ah If I were the one
Who watched over your sleeping
You would never have been frightened
At all
At all
At all
At all
Faithful
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Stevie's written many songs about her friendship with Tom Petty such as "Hard Advice", "Two Kinds of Love", "That Made Me Stronger" or "For What It's Worth". And this is one of them. But she's not singing she wants to be his girlfriend but how it would be nice to join his band for a while. Well, here is a little information about this song as well as her own comment (btw - great track!): Stevie wrote “If You Were My Love” about the experience of working with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for the first time in 1980. “It’s like a love song, but it’s not. It’s about going outside your own life and getting attached to something that isn’t yours. It’s been kind of like falling in love with another band — for a minute. It has nothing to do with — and truly, clarify this — there is absolutely nothing going on between me and anybody in that band. They’re all married. They’re all expecting babies. That’s what makes it very easy for me to be with them and be their friend, and almost be one of the guys” (Beck, 1981). (I got it from stevienicks.info site)
[Edit: Grammar]