If I told you that I loved you

Would you come back to me?

If I told you that after sitting with you

On the floor of some high school hallway--

The first and last school dance I bothered to go to--

I realized that I loved you,

Would you come back to me?

If I told you that I lied to her

When I said it had nothing to do

With her choosing you,

Would you come back to me?

If I told you that I made a mistake

When I pulled away,

That I was wrong,

And I’m sorry,

Would you come back to me?

If I told you that I ask about you,

Everyone I still know

Who still knows you,

Would you come back to me?

If I told you that I just wanted you to speak first,

To break the silence that I’d manufactured

In a factory of anxiety,

That I’d been too afraid to close the empty space,

Would you come back to me?

If I told you that I loved you then

But I was too stupid to see it,

Too stupid to want it,

Too stupid to need it,

Would you come back to me?

If I told you that I love you

Would you come back to me?