The lights come up, the show is over The theater empties as the credits roll by This house is cold, the song is fading I sit alone as curtains close on this heart of mine And I wonder how it all came down To the famous final scene How we lost the thread that held us Spellbound in a dream Now the stage is dark And the theaters cold and lonely The music fades Like an interrupted melody We wrote the score Now I hear the words "if only" Hangin' in the air Like an interrupted melody The word began, my life found meaning The very moment when I saw your face All traffic stopped, I held you breathless I melted into you and lost all sense of time and space Now I could've sworn forever's touch Had surely leny a glove In conducting our life's symphony The melody of love Now the stage is dark And the theaters cold and lonely The music fades Like an interrupted melody We wrote the score Now I hear the words "if only" Hangin' in the air Like an interrupted melody I, I've been searching for the reason Tell me, why, are we strangers to the song Oh, could we go back to the season When we walked this earth together Two against the storm Now the stage is dark And the theaters cold and lonely The music fades Like an interrupted melody We wrote the score Now I hear the words "if only" Hangin' in the air Like an interrupted melody