If Only (Quartet) {from The Little Mermaid} [Broadway Version]
ARIEL 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...
ERIC What is it about her that's So wonderfully and possibly 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
ARIEL If only ears were true If only for a while
ERIC Ah, that voice!
ARIEL If only you would notice How I ache behind my smile
ERIC Where’s that voice?
ARIEL 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...
SEBASTIAN (spoken) Bless you child. Tomorrow, the Prince will have his pick of any Princess in the land. How can a little mermaid compete with that?
(sung) 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'd 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?
KING TRITON 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!
ERIC Oh, that voice!
KING TRITON If only you could know
SEBASTIAN If only I could help
ERIC Where's that voice?
ARIEL If only there were time I know we'd kiss at last
ERIC That voice!
KING TRITON If only you'd come back I'll change my ways
SEBASTIAN Just one more day For that kiss to come
ARIEL But time keeps racing forward And our moment's almost past
KING TRITON I'll try to understand
ARIEL It has to happen now
SEBASTIAN I'd give my life up To make it happen
KING TRITON I'd give my timber low I should have started listening To you long ago
ERIC How I wish that girl could Have been this one
ARIEL There's only one more day Until I have to go
ERIC If only...
ARIEL, SEBASTIAN, AND KING TRITON Oh, what I would give If only you could know
ERIC And at the ball, what will accumb? Maybe I'll find that voice But I'll loose her...