Gimmie Dat Throwback - Patti LaBelle - @MsPattiPatti - If Only You Knew

If Only You Knew was a single written and produced primarily by Dexter Wansel and Cynthia Biggs for American singer Patti LaBelle's sixth solo album, I'm in Love Again. It was released as the album's official first single in 1983, spending four weeks at number one on the U.S. R&B charts during January and February 1984, and reached number forty-six on the Billboard Hot 100 marking her first crossover pop hit.





LYRICS:

I must have rehearsed my lines
A thousand times
Until I had them memorized
But when I get up the nerve
To tell you, the words
Just never seem to come out right

(Chorus:)
If only you knew
How much I do
Do love you
If only you knew
How much I do
Do need you

I dream of moments we share
But you're not there
I'm living in a fantasy
'Cause you don't even suspect
Could prob'ly care less
About the changes I've been going through

If only you knew
How much I do
Do love you
If only you knew
How much I do
Do need you

No, you don't even suspect
Could prob'ly care less
About the changes I've been going through

If only you knew
How much I do
Do love you
If only you knew
How much I do
Do need you