If Only I Could Wait

Album: Sable, Fable (2025)
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  • If only I could wait
    If only I could wait

    If only I could wait
    But before me is a ways out
    Can I live inside this state?
    Where the summers are charades now
    Can I incur the weight?
    Am I really this afraid now?

    For what's at stake
    Oh, babe
    I'll take the pain

    If only you could wait
    I ain't up at your pace yet
    I take the steps to stage
    And they hit me with the rays now
    But if I could only pray
    In the blaze of a northern bar
    I'd bend another straight
    We'll decay in other ways now

    If only you could wait (I, I know that it's hard)
    Or is it folded either way now? (To keep holding)
    The common leads away (keep holding strong)
    But is it only years away now? (Keep holding on)
    I have come to learn replace (I, I know that it's best)
    And I resemble other traits of the Lord (To keep going)
    I have rendered other fates (these memories hold)
    And I've been prowling on the brakes now (these memories fade)

    But what a taste
    Oh, babe
    In every way
    Not for the freight
    I'm best alone
    In high ways Writer/s: Danielle Haim, James Stack, Justin Vernon
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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