If Only

If I touch a burning candle I will feel no pain If you stab me with a knife It’s just the same And as the light in my eyes fade My life’s dept has been repaid And as though life cannot be freed In my eyes I’ll walk in heed If I jump in freezing water will I burn and die? If I jump a cliff will I soon fly? And in these years left unread It never mattered what was said And soon words were dead