If I Wanted Someone

Like the memory from your mother's house

From before you got too old

Like the feeling from a photograph

Before it's meanings all got told

The words I say can be silver

But what's left unsaid can be gold

So get to know me once I go away

Maybe 'cause I come from such an empty-hearted town

Or maybe 'cause some love of mine had really let me down

But the only time I am lonely is when others are around

I just never end up knowing what to say

If I wanted someone to clean me up

I'd find myself a maid

If I wanted someone to spend my money

I wouldn't need to get paid

If I wanted someone to understand me

I'd have so much more to say

I want you to make the days move easy

I took everything I thought from what it means to be a man

We need words to be put to what we do not understand

While you lean into the echoes and you do not raise a hand

Oh woman, help me see it like it is

If I wanted someone to clean me up

I'd find myself a maid

If I wanted someone to spend my money

I wouldn't need to get paid

If I wanted someone to understand me

I'd have so much more to say

I want you to make the days move easy

If I wanted someone to clean me up

I'd find myself a maid

If I wanted someone to spend my money

I wouldn't need to get paid

If I wanted someone to cut me down

I'd have handed you the blade

I want you to make the days move easy

I just want you to make the days move easy