If You Only Knew

I hear your heart in every word
you never meant for me to read
And I feel the pull of what we are
in every breath I try to keep
You think I’m made of distance, love,
but silence is the shield I wear
’Cause wanting you comes easy, girl,
but holding on is hard to bear

I’m not the man who walks away
I’m just the one who’s scared to stay
’Cause loving you could drown me whole
and losing you would break my soul

If you only knew how deep you live in me
how your longing shakes the ground beneath my feet
I’m not letting go, but I can’t pull you close
I’m just trying not to lose the man I used to be
If you only knew…
you’d feel my love ache too

You think you’re the one who waits
but I’m the one who stands half‑blind
Trying not to lose myself
in the fire burning in your mind
I never meant to make you doubt
or leave you standing in the door
I’m just learning how to love someone
without losing who I’m loving for

Between the fear and what I feel
I’m walking lines I can’t reveal
But every time you breathe my name
I swear it lights me up in flames

If you only knew how deep you live in me
I’m not letting go, but I can’t pull you close
If you only knew…
you’d feel my love ache too

“If You Only Knew” is a confession sung from the quiet side of love — the side that rarely speaks, but feels everything. It tells the story of a man who loves deeply, yet stands at a careful distance, not because his heart is uncertain, but because the intensity of what he feels threatens to pull him under. He carries a longing he cannot voice, a tenderness he struggles to show, and a fear that loving too closely might cost him the parts of himself he is still trying to hold together.

The song moves like a slow-burning Latin‑blues heartbeat: warm, rhythmic, intimate. Within that pulse, he admits that her longing echoes inside him, that her ache is also his, and that silence is not absence but protection. He is torn between the desire to step toward her and the instinct to stay still, afraid that either choice could break something fragile between them.

“If You Only Knew” is ultimately a portrait of two hearts reaching for each other from opposite sides of the same fear — a love that is real, powerful, and alive, yet held gently so it doesn’t consume them. It is a song about wanting, waiting, and the quiet courage it takes to love someone without losing yourself in the process.