if she only knew

　　If she only knew

　　What I knew but couldn't say

　　If she could just see

　　The part of me that I hid away

　　If I could just hold her in my arms again

　　And just say I love you

　　But she's gone away, maybe she'd stay

　　If she only knew

　　If she could just feel

　　What I feel here in my heart

　　She'd know it was real

　　Pure and true right from the start

　　But I'm just a man who didn't understand

　　What she was going through

　　But she's gone away, maybe she'd stay

　　If she only knew

　　Bridge:

　　And how, how did I let her get away

　　Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

　　'Cause love, love is so easy to feel

　　But the hardest thing to say

　　If she could just see (see)

　　What I see when I close my eyes (close my eyes)

　　All that I dream (dream)

　　Surely she would realize

　　But like a fool I waited much too long

　　To let her know the truth

　　She's gone away, maybe she'd stay

　　If she only knew

　　2nd Bridge:

　　Tell me, tell me

　　How, how did I let her get away (tell me)

　　'Cause I guess that love

　　Love is so easy to feel

　　But the hardest thing to say

　　Say, say, say, say

　　If she only knew

　　What I knew but could not say

　　If she could just see

　　The part of me that I hid away

　　If I could just hold her in my arms again

　　And just say I love you, I love you

　　She's gone away, maybe she'd stay

　　If she only knew, if she only knew

　　Maybe she'd stay but she ran away

　　Why she had to go away

　　'Cause of what I didn't say

　　Don't know what to do

　　Oh God how I wish that she knew