Hazel O'Connor

If Only

Hazel O'Connor


What do you do when they turn on the light? 
You guard your heart, so they steal your sight 
You reach out in blindness, touch the alone 
Its icicle fingers chill you to the bone 
What do you do when the cat gives her tongue? 
No way to tell it's all going wrong 
Now that the words are locked in the phone 
Nobody answers, nobody's home 
What's done has been done, and I won't be the one 
Who despairs in the wheelchair, resigned to "If only" 
No, I'll stand up again and I'll run 
I'll jump up till I touch the sun 
Because I won't be the one to be bound 
By the sound of "If only, if only, if only" 
Well, I reach out in blindness now, but what do I care? 
I'll walk into walls and I'll stumble downstairs 
I'll laugh like a fishwife, I'll cry like a clown 
Up is the only way to go when you're down 
When I reach a mountain top, then I start to climb 
I'll walk on the water, I'll turn water to wine 
Hope is the one thing we got on our side 
Hope can be salvaged when all else has died 
What's done has been done, and I won't be the one 
Who despairs in the wheelchair, resigned to "If only" 
No, I'll stand up again and I'll run 
I'll jump up till I touch the sun 
Because I won't be the one to be bound 
By the sound of "If only, if only, if only" 
What's done has been done, and I won't be the one 
Who despairs in the wheelchair, resigned to "If only" 
No, I'll stand up again and I'll run 
I'll jump up till I touch the sun 
Because I won't be the one to be bound 
By the sound of "If only, if only, if only"