If I Loved You

If I Loved You
music by Richard Rodgers (left)
lyric by Oscar Hammerstein II (right)

If I loved you, time and again I would try to say
All I'd want you to know.
If I loved you, words wouldn't come in an easy way---
Round in circles I'd go.
Longin' to tell you, but afraid and shy,
I'd let my golden chances pass me by.
Soon you'd leave me, off you would go in the mist of day,
Never, never to know how I loved you---
If I loved you...