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 understand me, I'd have so much more to say
 I want you to make the days move easy
 Oh, 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