If you were a carpenter
Your hand to the grain
If you stayed a stranger
And I'd never learned your name
If you were a creature of make believe
If you were the shades of colors my eyes cannot see

I never would have known
What you would have meant to me

[interlude]

If you had an ironclad
Reason to stay home
If you played a second late
Your hands missed the note
If you were a followеr of simple faith
If you’d been following another in some othеr way

I never would have known
What you would have meant to me

[interlude]

I never would have known
Just what you meant to me
I never would have known
Just what you meant to me