If I wanted to forget you    it’d a been easy    If I wanted to lose you    it’d a been quick    Hell, I lost myself    for four years    And I might have slipped away    but I fell sick       It ain’t just you then    who was in danger    of disappearing    underneath the waves    it was everyone and    everything I ever loved    slipping out of knowing    into unmarked graves       CHORUS    If I wanted to    If I wanted to    If I wanted to, I tell myself    I could have. Is it true?    Did I want to?       It started as a vow    in some old tree house    you swore you'd never be your    fathers when you aged    But you're all sitting at this bar    wondering who you are    And you're becoming those at whom you    once were so enraged       And a prison bar don’t have to be    too strong you know    It’s how many there are side by side    that keep you in the cell    The camera dollies out    from where your lying in your bunk    But the camera’s    in the prison yard as well       CHORUS    If you wanted to...       They can tell you that    you won’t amount to nothin', boy    Or that’s what we expect    from nasty girls like you    They act like everything is figured out    but what’ll they do when    that tragedy comes falling on them too       CHORUS    If they wanted to...