IF 8 WERE 9 - DAVID GRAY from GOLD IN A BRASS AGE (2019) =============================== [INTRO]               [VERSE I] If skin should touch and words evaporate Trouble clear out of sight with my whole body listening My heart leans out like these old river trees Closer to be where you glide moving under me glistening [CHORUS] If 8 were 9 I would hold you Yeah I would rock you I would shelter you darling If 8 were 9 I would lift you Lift you clear off the ground Through the gates into morning [VERSE II] The time would stretch Stretch out these magic hours Into days into years Tomorrow lost in the distance A voice speaks out Says "Hey man let it go" But when a heart has been true Well it don’t make any difference [CHORUS] If 8 were 9 I would hold you Yeah I would rock you I would shelter you darling If 8 were 9 I would lift you Lift you clear off the ground Through the gates into morning If 8 were 9         If 8 were 9      If 8 were 9         If 8 were 9   Through the gates into morning yeah (gtr)   /  /     / [Outro] Yeah through the gates into morning