If Only

[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 ev'ry 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.

[Prince Eric]
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!

[Ariel]
If only it 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.

[Eric]
Ah, that voice!
Where's that voice?

[Ariel]
If only there were time
I know we'd kiss at last.

[Eric]
That voice!

[Ariel]
But time keeps racing forward
And our moment's almost passed!

[Ariel]
It has to happen now...

[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]
Oh, what I would give if only you could know...

[Eric]
And at the ball
What will occur?
Maybe I'll find that voice
But I'll lose her...

[Ariel]
If only...