If I Loved You

[JULIE]
If I loved you
Time and again I would try to say
All I'd want you to know
If I loved you
Words wouldn't come in an easy way
Round in circles I'd go
Longin' to tell you, but afraid and shy
I'd let my golden chances pass me by
Soon you'd leave me
Off you would go in the mist of day
Never, never to know
How I loved you
If I loved you
[BILLY, spoken]
Well anyway—you don't love me
That's what you said, wasn't it?
[JULIE, spoken]
Yes
[BILLY, spoken]
You're a funny kid
Don't remember ever meetin' a girl like you
Say, are you tryin' to get me to marry you?
[JULIE, spoken]
Oh, no
[BILLY, spoken]
Well then, what's puttin' it into my head?
I wonder what it'd be like?
[JULIE, spoken]
What?
[BILLY, spoken]
Nothin', I know what it'd be like
It'd be awful
I can just see myself
[BILLY]
Kinda scrawny and pale, pickin' at my food
And lovesick like any other guy
I'd throw away my sweater, and dress up like a dude
In a dickey and a collar and a tie
If I loved you
And somehow I can see
Just exactly how I'd be
If I loved you
Time and again I would try to say
All I'd want you to know
If I loved you
Words wouldn't come in an easy way
Round in circles I'd go
Longin' to tell you, but afraid and shy
I'd let my golden chances pass me by
Soon you'd leave me
Off you would go in the mist of day
Never, never to know
How I loved you
If I loved you