If Only (Quartet) (Broadway Cast Recording) 歌詞

If Only (Quartet) - Original Cast

 

If only you could know

 

The things I long to say

 

If only I could tell you

What I wish I could convey

 

It's in my every glance

 

My heart's an open book

 

You'd see it all at once

If only you would look

 

If only you could glimpse

 

The feeling that I feel

 

If only you would notice

What I'm dying to reveal

 

The dreams I can't declare

 

The needs I can't deny

 

You'd understand them all

If only you would try

 

All my secrets you would learn them

 

All my longings you'd return them

Then the silence would be broken

 

Not a word would need be spoken

 

What is it about her

That's so wonderfully impossibly familiar

 

Why do I feel dizzy

In a way I've only felt but once before

 

How come when she looks at me

It seems like time stops moving

 

Almost like the way it did that day upon the shore

 

But that voice

If only it were true

 

If only for a while

Ah that voice

If only you would notice

How I ache beneath my smile

Where's that voice

I guess you never will

 

I guess it doesn't show

 

But if I never find a way to tell you so

 

Oh what I would give

 

If only you could know

 

Bless ya child tomorrow

The prince will have his pick of any princess in the land

 

How can a little mermaid

Compete with that

 

If only I knew how

 

I'd make him see the light

 

If only it were up to me

This all would turn out right

 

And if I only could

 

I'll tell you what I'd do

 

I'd simply wave me claw

And make your dreams come true

 

And wouldn't that surprise you

If you only knew

How could she just suddenly

 

Completely disappear into thin water

 

It's been two whole days

And I don't know where she has gone

 

Ah that voice

If only you'd come home

If only I could help

 

Where's that voice

If only there were time

 

I know we'd kiss at last

That voice

If only you'd come back

I'll change my ways

Just one more day for that kiss to come

But time keeps racing forward

And our moment's almost passed

I'll try to understand

 

It has to happen now

 

I'll keep my temper low

I'd give my life up to make it happen

 

I should have started listening to you all along

How I wish that girl could have been this one

There's only one more day until I have to go

 

If only

 

Oh what I would give if only you could know

And at the ball

What will occur

 

Maybe I'll find that voice

 

But I'll lose her

 

If only

 

If only

 

 

If only