If I Needed You

[Intro] [Verse 1] You should see the world from up there The rush of the G’s We wear our special clothes To keep the blood in our knees Get a little me time at 76,000 feet Serve my brothers, not the oil fields Fight this war for peace, for peace [Chorus 1] Until the job is done, until the job is done Until the job is done Like my fathers before me [Intro] [Verse 2] Do you have generals To train your brains? In the next life cycle We could all meet again I write this romance for all the world to see I post it on the Internet But I do it just for me, just for me [Chorus 2] May I draw you the sun, draw you the sun May I draw you the sun In the oldest living language, Chinese [Intro] [Verse 3] I’m flying down to Texas For a wedding at a ranch To sing If I Needed You By Townes Van Zandt For Mary and Peter, family and friends To wish them all happiness And joy that never ends, never ends [Chorus 3] When two become one, two become one Do two become one Like the twisting of the live oak trees [Instrumental] [Ending] Our flight ends at DFW and we say goodbye I ride the trams and wonder how airplanes fly Dallas holds us for a moment, then I ride on to Austin Where I sit amongst strangers and say nothing at all Should old acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot And old lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear For auld lang syne We’ll take a cup of kindness yet For auld lang syne And surely you’ll buy your pint cup And surely I’ll buy mine And we’ll take a cup of kindness yet For auld lang syne We two have run about the slopes And picked the daisies fine But we’ve wandered many a weary foot Since auld lang syne We two have paddled in the stream From morning sun till dine But seas between us broad have roared Since auld lang syne And there’s a hand my trusty friend And give us a hand o’ thine And we’ll take a right goodwill draught For auld lang syne [Intro]