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Erasure
The Circus
If I Could

TRACK

If I Could

Release date: 30th March 1987

From The Circus

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About This Track

"If I Could" is a track by Erasure, from the album The Circus, released 30th March 1987. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Erasure

Erasure

Lyrics

If I Could

[Verse 1:]

I don't believe you know

What you're talking 'bout

I don't believe you'd go

And ever find out for yourself

Always got a lot to say

But I'm not listening anyway

I'm not listening anyway

[Chorus:]

If I could

Make the world a little better

You know I would

Make the world a little better

If I could

Make the world a little better

[Verse 2:]

I don't believe you care

About the consequences

I don't believe you share

In what you know we know is true

Turning keys and locking doors

I won't accept that anymore

Won't accept that anymore

[Chorus:]

If I could

Make the world a little better

You know I would

Make the world a little better

If I could

Make the world a little better

[Break Instrumental]

[Verse 3:]

I don't believe you know

About the hearts you've broken

I don't believe you show

What your intentions really are

Can you hear?

What have you done?

There's not enough for everyone

Not enough for anyone

[Chorus:]

If I could

Make the world a little better

You know I would

Make the world a little better

If I could

Make the world a little better

[Chorus:]

If I could

Make the world a little better

You know I would

Make the world a little better

If I could

Make the world a little better

[Outro:]

If I could, you know, I would

If I could, you know, I would

If I could, you know, I would

If I could, you know, I would

If I could, you know, I would

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Track details

From The Circus

1987

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Album

Release year

1987

—If I Could (Live) [Brighton Dome, Brighton, UK - 1987/04/17]
—Victim of Love [Vixen Vitesse Mix]
—If I Could [Japanese Mix]
—It Doesn't Have to Be (Live) [Top of the Pops - 1987/03/19]
—Don't Dance
—If I Could
—Sexuality
—Leave Me to Bleed
—It Doesn’t Have to Be [Single Version]
—Oh L'Amour (Live) [Brighton Dome, Brighton, UK - 1987/04/17]
—Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (Live) [Brighton Dome, Brighton, UK - 1987/04/17]
—Safety in Numbers (Live) [Brighton Dome, Brighton, UK - 1987/04/17]
—Sometimes (Live) [Brighton Dome, Brighton, UK - 1987/04/17]
—The Circus (Live) [Brighton Dome, Brighton, UK - 1987/04/17]
—Don't Dance (Live) [Brighton Dome, Brighton, UK - 1987/04/17]
—Hideaway
—It Doesn't Have to Be (Live) [Brighton Dome, Brighton, UK - 1987/04/17]
—Leave Me to Bleed (Live) [Brighton Dome, Brighton, UK - 1987/04/17]
—Sexuality [Extended Mix]
—Safety in Numbers
—Say What (Live) [Brighton Dome, Brighton, UK - 1987/04/17]
—Sometimes [Shiver Mix]
—Sometimes [Extended Mix]
—Spiralling (Live) [Brighton Dome, Brighton, UK - 1987/04/17]
—Spiralling
—Spiralling [Radio 1 Session - 1987/03/10]
—Victim of Love (Live) [Brighton Dome, Brighton, UK - 1987/04/17]
—The Circus [Remix]
—The Circus (Live) [Top of the Pops - 1987/10/22]
—Victim of Love [Remix]
—Victim of Love (Live) [Top of the Pops - 1987/06/05]
—Who Needs Love (Like That) [Betty Boop Mix]
—Who Needs Love (Like That) (Live) [Brighton Dome, Brighton, UK - 1987/04/17]
—Phantom Bride [Radio 1 Session - 1987/03/10]
—The Circus [Radio 1 Session - 1987/03/10]
—Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! [Radio 1 Session - 1987/03/10]
—Sometimes [Video Mix]
—Sometimes (Live) [Top of the Pops - 1986/11/20]
—It Doesn't Have to Be [Cement Mix]
—In the Hall of the Mountain King [New Version]
—The Circus [Bareback Rider Mix]
—It Doesn’t Have to Be [Boop Oopa Doo Mix]
—The Soldier's Return [The Return of the Radical Radcliffe Mix]

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