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If I Can't Love Her
If I Can't Love Her
from the musical Beauty and the Beast
Originally performed by
Composer Alan Menken
Lyrics Tim Rice
Performer(s) Beast
Length 4:06
Albums
Preceded by
Followed by

 If I Can't Love Her is a song sung by the Beast in the musical and also the Act I Finale. Belle, frightened for her life after the Beast's violent tantrum over her intrusion in the West Wing, has fled the castle. The Beast, aware of his potentially fatal mistake, thinks back to the day he became what he is, and laments that had he known then what he knows now, he could have done things differently, but didn't. He then realizes that he will have to change his ways if he ever wishes to return himself and his servants to human form.. The Song is particularly famous for its spectacular element of the Beast Standing on a balcony looking out to the starry night sky.

Later, when Belle sees in the magic mirror that her father is in trouble, the Beast lets Belle go, dashing all his hopes of breaking the spell.


Lyrics[]

Beast: And in my twisted face,

There's not the slightest trace

Of anything that even hints of kindness.

And from my tortured shape,

No comfort, no escape.

I see, but deep within is utter blindness.

Hopeless,

As my dream dies,

As the time flies,

Love, a lost illusion.

Helpless,

Unforgiven,

Cold and driven

To this sad conclusion...

No beauty could move me,

No goodness improve me.

No power on Earth, if I can't love her.

No passion could reach me,

No lesson could teach me

How I could have loved her, and make her love me too.

If I can't love her, then who?

Long ago, I should have seen

All the things I could have been.

Careless and unthinking, I moved onward...

No pain could be deeper,

No life could be cheaper.

No point anymore, if I can't love her.

No spirit could win me,

No hope left within me.

Hope I could have loved her, and that she'd set me free.

But it's not to be...

If I can't love her...

Let the world be done with me!

Reprise (soundtrack)[]

No pain could be deeper
No life could be cheaper
No point anymore if she can't love me
No hope she would do so
No dream to pursue so
I look to myself
Despise all the things I see
For I know that she
Cannot set me free
Let the world be done with me

Reprise (stage)[]

No spell has been broken
No words have been spoken
No point anymore if she can't love me
No hope she would do so
No dream to pursue, so
I finally know that I will always be
In this hopeless state
And condemned to wait
Wait for death to set me free

Video[]

Beauty_and_the_Beast_Broadway_OST_-_13_-_If_I_Can't_Love_Her

Beauty and the Beast Broadway OST - 13 - If I Can't Love Her

Beauty_and_the_Beast_Broadway_OST_-_19_-_If_I_Can't_Love_Her_(Reprise)

Beauty and the Beast Broadway OST - 19 - If I Can't Love Her (Reprise)

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