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