If

As a follow-up on Astrid’s last blog post on ‘If’ here another review of the song. The song is from the album ‘You take my heart away’.

‘If’ was written by David Gates from ‘Bread’.

Here you can listen to an incredible live version from the Japan concert from 1977 that was released on an album but unfortunately not on CD (yet). The end note is just……WOW! To listen click the player below.

Also Dame Shirley sang the song on her 1976- and 1979- BBC shows and in 1977 as a duet with Jack Jones on the Jack Jones show.

The video of the duet with Jack Jones

Lyrics:

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 girl 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