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The Little Mermaid on Broadway OST - 25 - If Only (Quartet)
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Sierra Boggess
Sierra Boggess
Performer
Sierra Boggess as Ariel
Sierra Boggess as Ariel
Performer
Sean Palmer as Prince Eric
Sean Palmer as Prince Eric
Performer
Tituss Burgess as Sebastian
Tituss Burgess as Sebastian
Performer
Norm Lewis as King Triton
Norm Lewis as King Triton
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Glenn Slater
Glenn Slater
Composer
Alan Menken
Alan Menken
Composer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Verse 3]
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
[Verse 4]
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
[Verse 5]
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
[Verse 6]
Bless you child, tomorrow the prince will have his pick
Of any princess in the land
How can a little mermaid compete with that?
[Verse 7]
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?
[Verse 8]
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
[Verse 9]
Ah that voice
If only you'd come home
If only I could help
?Where's that voice
[Verse 10]
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
[Verse 11]
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
[Verse 12]
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
[Verse 13]
And at the ball
What will occur?
Maybe I'll find that voice
But I'll lose her
If only
If only
If only
Written by: Alan Menken, Glenn Slater
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