If I were a tree standing silent in the forest

Or a star shining softly in the night

If I were an old fencepost by the road in old Montana

Or if I was a watercolor cloud painted on a sanguine

sky

Would you stop and say there is the one who loves me

There is the one who'll always know my name

Or would you pass me by and never wonder why

You only hear the thunder not the words I love you

whispering in the rain

If I were an old man playing songs on my piano

Just an old man hopin that one day my name might shine

in lights

In a motel by the side of the road in old Montana

Just an old man wondering how your love had passed me

by

Would you stop and say there's the one who loves me

There's the one who'll always know my name

Or would you pass me by and never wonder why

You only hear the thunder not the words I love you

whispering in the rain

If I were a song that you heard while you were driving

Just an old familiar song that you heard while you were

driving through the night

On an old and lonely road somewhere in Montana

Oh while the lightning worked its way across the sky

Would you stop and say there's the one who loves me

There's the one who'll always know my name

Or would you pass me by and never wonder why

You only hear the thunder not the words I love you

whispering in the rain