If Only (Quartet) [Broadway Cast Recording]

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 behind 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 you 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