"If I May" lyrics - PAUL HEATON

I was taught to believe
In just the one love
And here I am probably on my tenth
But then following the failure
And fiasco of the first
Nothing after really made much sense

If I may, I'll fall in love with you
I hope that I'm not saying so too soon
This could be our last chance
To kick it into touch the blue
It ain't rocket science
But could fly us to the moon

If I may, I'll fall in love with you
We've got to get ourselves a ball and chain
I know I'm just the prize
That lonely women choose
I'm praying that you'll maybe do the same

I was the seventh daughter
Of a man who worked the pits
And though he never ever really said
He toiled and he laboured
And he loved this girl to bits
And grafted for this family till he was dead

If I may, I'll fall in love with you
I cannot promise that you are the first
Every time I've loved someone
I've given very best
And it seems to me
They've given very worst

And I'll be singing these blues
Till half the audience are bald
And the other half can't quite remember
What their husbands are called
Or I could fill you up with nonsense
Make you promises I can't afford
The stuff we want to hear
The stories that we tell
Whenever we're bored