If Only

If only you’d told me
You loved me
Instead of proving
Yourself my superior
Then
I’d have told you
I loved you
Instead of proving
I was nobody’s inferior

If only you had told me
You wanted me
Instead of wanting
To be my father
Then
I’d have told you
I wanted you
Instead of wanting
To be nobody’s prisoner

If only you’d told me
You needed me
Instead of needing
To own me
Then
I’d have told you
I needed you
Instead of needing
To be nobody’s property

If only you’d have known
That love was enough
If only I’d known
That love was enough
If only we could together
Have learnt this truth
We would not now be apart.