If Only

(Dolly Parton)

The word "If", just two tiny letters

Says so much for something so small

The biggest little word in existence;

Never answers, just questions us all

If regrets were gold,

I'd be rich as a queen

If teardrops were diamonds, how my face would gleam

If I'd loved you better,

I wouldn't be lonely

If only, if only, if only

But looking back now

I see clearly

With my twenty-twenty hindsight

Oh, but don't think

I haven't paid dearly,'

Cause you could be in my arms tonight

If regrets were gold,

I'd be rich as a queen

If teardrops were diamonds, how my face would gleam

How I let you go,

I swear is beyond me

But if only; ah, if only; oh, if only

I could start over, if

I could go back

Have the power to change things

Then I would do that

But I listened to others like a fool,

Oh, shame on me

But if only you would just come back

If only, dare

I even ask

Oh, if only