I've been wishing on a star, but I could never have imagined
That I would land just where you are after all this lonesome traveling
I took one look in your eye, and reached out to hold your hand
This is when I realized what I could never understand

Do you want to be my one and only love?
Do you want to be my one and only love?

So you want to be my friend, so you want to be my lover
Oh, with you, I do confess
I can't be one without the other
That was hard for me to say
I hope I said it right
Whichever, come what may, you see I need to know tonight

Do you want to be my one and only love?
Do you want to be my one and only love?

Do you want to play these cards, do you want to lay them down?
Do you want to run away or do you want to stick around?

Do you want to be my one and only love?
Do you want to be my one and only love?


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    this is the song me and my current fiance will dance to first at our wedding! such a beautiful song, the words just seem so real as he sings them.

    raspberryjayon December 19, 2005   Link

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