If She Would Have Been Faithful... -- Chicago

Charted: 1987
Peaked at #17
Warner/Full Moon -- 28424
From the album "Chicago 18"
Written by Steve Kipner / Randy Goodrum
B-Side "Forever"
45 RPM -- 3:53

I was thinking about her
Visiting the past
Reconstructing details
With old photographs
I was studying the faces
With that objective point of view
Suddenly, remembering doesn't haunt me

At the time, you couldn't tell me
If one day I'd be glad
That something that I thought was love
Was misinterpreted
She had another lover
She emphatically denied
But, they were doing me a favor
A blessing in disguise

Chorus:
If she would have been faithful
If she could have been true
Then I would have been cheated
I would never know real love
I would have missed out on you

I watch you sleeping
Your body touching me
There's no doubt about it
This is where I want to be
You know, it's so ironic
I had to lose to win
I want to thank her
Thank her for leavin'

Chorus

It's a paradox
Full of contradictions
How I got from there to here
It defies all logical explanation

Chorus x 2

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