If Only Lyrics - 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 gets your tongue? 

No way to say it's all going wrong 

Now that the words are the telephone 

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 until I touch the sun 

Because I won't be the one to be bound 

By the sound of 'If only', 'If only' 

Well, I reach out in blindness now but what do I care? 

I'll walk into walls, 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 in 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 until I touch the sun 

Because I won't be the one to be bound 

By the sound of '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 until I touch the sun 

Because I won't be the one to be bound 

By the sound of 'If only', 'If only', 'If only'