•●♥❤ "Music is a picture that was painted by an artist's soul with the sound of passion." ❤♥●• Enjoy the version of this touching love song "If" by TELLY SAVALAS of 1975! "If" is a pop-rock song written by American singer-songwriter David Gates in 1971. Originally popularized by his group "Bread", the song charted at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 when released as a single in 1971. The song also spent three weeks at number one on the Easy Listening chart. It was quickly covered by other singers and musicians. The TELLY SAVALAS version reached number one on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in March 1975 and has the shortest title of any song to reach number one in the UK. ARISTOTELES "TELLY" SAVALAS (Greek: Αριστοτέλης "Τέλι" Σαβάλας; January 21, 1922 -- January 22, 1994) was a Greek American film and television actor and singer, whose career spanned four decades. Best known for playing the title role in the 1970s crime drama "Kojak", the series called in Germany "Einsatz in Manhattan". Savalas died on January 22, 1994, at the age of 72, just one day after his birthday, of complications of cancer of the bladder and prostate. R.I.P. Telly! IF ~ TELLY SAVALAS (engl. lyrics) If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you? The words will never show the you I've come to know. And if a face could launch a thousand ships, then where am I to go? There's no-one home ~ but you, you're all that's left me to. And when my love for life is running dry, you come, you come and pour yourself on me. If a man could be at two places at one time, I'd be with you tomorrow and today beside you all the way. If the world should stop revolving, spinning, spinning slowly down to die, I'd spend the end with you, and when the world was through. Then one by one the stars would all go out, then you and I would simply fly away. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DEUTSCHE ÜBERSETZUNG: (Wenn) Wenn ein Bild unzählige Worte malt, warum kann ich Dich dann nicht malen? Die Worte würden niemals zeigen, das DU, so wie ich es kenne. Und wenn ein Gesicht unzählige Schiffe auslaufen lassen könnte, wohin sollte ich dann gehen? Es gäbe kein Zuhause für mich ~ ausser Du, Du wärst alles, was mich verlassen hätte. Und wenn meine Liebe zum Leben in's Trockene läuft, dann kommst Du ~ Du kommst und gießt Dich über mich. Wenn ein Mann an zwei Orten gleichzeitig sein könnte, ich würde bei Dir sein, morgen und heute, neben Dir, die ganze Strecke. Wenn die Welt aufhört zu routieren, sich zu drehen ~ sich langsam zu drehen, um zu sterben, ich würde das Ende mit Dir verbringen und wenn die Welt unterginge. Wenn dann alle Sterne erlöschen würden, einer nach dem andern, dann ~ Du und ich, würden einfach davonfliegen.