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Today I finally understand
Why it had to be this way
So many things I kept inside
That I never knew how to say
You were always teaching me
And I never understood
Only now I realize
You were caring, you were loving me
(VERSE 1)
I thought your words were always
A little too hard on me
I never knew that every warning
Was your way of keeping me safe
I wanted to live my own way
Without listening to what you said
But life went by so quickly
And now I see what I couldn't see then
(PRE-CHORUS)
And now I see it in my son
The same things I used to do
He talks to me the very same way
He talks to me the very same way
That I once talked to you
(CHORUS)
If I had listened to you
If I had only understood
Maybe some of the roads I took
Would have turned out differently
If I had listened to you
Back when you were here with me
I would have learned much sooner
That your advice was love
Oh, if I could go back
Just one more time in my life
I wouldn't let a single word
Or a single moment pass me by
(VERSE 2)
Now I try to teach my son
So he won't go through what I went through
But look... you should be here
To see what I've come to see
He's a little copy of me
Talking back just like I used to
And when he doesn't listen to me
I can't help but think of you
And then I stop and wonder
How many times you tried
To show me the right way forward
And I simply turned aside
(PRE-CHORUS 2)
Now my thoughts go back again
To those days that are long gone
And the more I think about you
The more I understand what you were doing for me
(CHORUS)
If I had listened to you
If I had only understood
Maybe some of the roads I took
Would have turned out differently
If I had listened to you
Back when you were here with me
I would have learned much sooner
That your advice was love
Oh, if I could go back
Just one more time in my life
I wouldn't let a single word
Or a single moment pass me by
(BRIDGE — almost spoken, piano slowly rising)
You have to understand...
It wasn't because I didn't care
I just didn't understand
I was only a son
Trying to find my own way
Never realizing
You had already walked that road
Now I know...
You weren't trying to hold me back
You were trying to prepare me
And maybe that's the greatest lesson
Life has ever left for me...
(FINAL CHORUS — more intense)
If I had listened to you
If I had only understood
I would have held on to every word
Every piece of advice you gave
If I had listened to you
While you were still here with me
I would have said it a thousand times:
"Thank you for taking care of me."
Now I teach my son
Everything life has taught me
And when he doesn't listen to me
I can still hear your voice
(OUTRO — guitar and piano fading)
Today I finally understand...
Why it had to be this way...
You were teaching me how to live
And I only learned
When I started teaching my son...
If I had listened to you...
If I had listened to you...
Se eu tivesse te ouvido...
Se eu tivesse te ouvido...