If I wanted To

from The Optical Shop by Ryan Hommel

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If I Wanted To
Music & Lyrics by Ryan Hommel

I watched you pull out of the driveway
Like nothing ever happened
You should have seen the look on my face
As if your car seat wasn’t fastened

Now buckle up
For the long strange ride
It goes by fast
Like highway signs
I would never slow you down
I couldn’t if I wanted to

Just as spring leaps from the winter
You leapt straight out of my arms
Now the scary thing to figure
Is letting go could do no harm

But for eighteen years
We had a good run
I’ve kept you safe
But now, you’re gone
I would never hold you back
I couldn’t if I wanted to

I breathe deeply every morning
It hurts to miss you every day
I got no reason to be mourning
Though I wish you were around to hear me say
That I would never hold you back
I couldn’t if I wanted to

Now, I wake up when I want to
No alarm set for the bus
You took a table and my sofa
For the next guy that you’ll trust

You’ll be dressed in white
Down the road
As I watch you take
His hand to hold
But I would never hold you back
I would never hold you back
I couldn’t if I wanted to

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from The Optical Shop, released October 20, 2015

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Ryan Hommel Northampton, Massachusetts

As an unrelenting songsmith and performer, Ryan Hommel delivers his old-soul vocals and sophisticated guitar legerdemain with such a discipline, ease and clarity that it has nowhere to go but straight into your soul.

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