If I'd Been a Different Man - Jimmy Webb

If I’d been born a different kind

With a different heart

And a different mind

I might have stayed, afraid of what I’d find

I guess your love will keep

If you just knew how close I came to staying

But then again you never heard a word that I was saying

I just as well have spent my time a-praying

My, but the valley’s deep

My, but the mountain’s steep

And it’s hard to see

When you must weep

Oh, I loved you

Oh, I loved you

And if I’d been a different man

I might have tried to understand

I might have stayed there, safely in your hands

Lord, why can’t I sleep?