If only love   Can mend my heart   Why do I ache when we're apart?   And if only love   Can make me strong   Tell me how I'm to get along?      So long without you   So long without you      Walking down the street   In a seconds' beat   I can shift from emptiness   To bursting at the seams   Someone passes by   Sad, familiar eyes   And I'm spilling on your answering machine      Wish we were closer   Need to be closer      If only love   Can mend my heart   Why do I ache when we're apart?   And if only love   Can make me strong   Tell me how I'm to get along?      So long without you   So long without you      What if you were here?   Would it change a thing?   We might drift for hours through familiar wanderings   Then needing time along   Time to know our own   Caught up in this puzzlebox   The paradox of need      Need to be closer   Need to be closer      If only love   Can mend my heart   Why do I ache when we're apart?   And if only love   Can make me strong   Tell me how I'm to get along?      So long without you