"If I Could Only Be Your Lover" lyrics - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Just another town, another house
Boarded up, foreclosure sign
Once this town, this house
And you were mine
A rusted latch on a backyard fence
A swing set swallowed up in weeds
Growin' up some back-porch steps

[Chorus:]
If I could only be your lover
I'd never covet any other

Mornin' coffee, wake the kids
Kitchen warms to the day
This morning, this moment
No different in any way
The evening, a small picnic 'neath summer trees
Everything so quiet you'd never notice
You're holding a dream

[Chorus:]
If I could only be your lover
I'd never covet any other

The work dries up, it'll be okay
The end's a voice on the phone
From some office a million miles away

[Chorus:]
If I could only be your lover
I'd never covet any other

That summer, your hair
Had grown so long
You'd pull it back in a bun
And you'd sing a song
A song that'd set this house alight
Then slip 'cross my heart
And on out into the night

[Chorus:]
If I could only be your lover
I'd never covet any other
If I could only be your lover
I'd never covet any other

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