If You Only Knew peaked at #46 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped Billboard’s R&B Singles chart for four weeks.
[Verse 1]
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
I do need you
[Verse 2]
I dream of moments we share
But you're not there
I'm living in a fantasy
Cause you don't even suspect
Could probably care less
About the changes I been going through
[Chorus]
If only you knew
How much I do
Do love you
If only you knew
How much I do
I do need you
[Bridge]
No, you don't even suspect
Could probably care less
About the changes I been going through
[Chorus]
If only you knew
How much I do
Do love you
If only you knew
How much I do
I do need you
[Outro]
I say you don't know how much I need you
If Only You Knew was written by Cynthia Biggs & Dexter Wansel & Kenneth Gamble.
If Only You Knew was produced by Dexter Wansel & Kenneth Gamble.
Patti LaBelle released If Only You Knew on Fri Oct 28 1983.