If Only

Album: Drastic Fantastic (2007)
Charted: 45
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Songfacts®:

  • KT Tunstall in The Daily Mail September 7 2007: "It's about someone who didn't really believe in me, and a celebration of what has become of me." >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England
  • This was written by Tunstall several years before it appeared on her Drastic Fantastic album. An earlier version can be found on her second unreleased demo album, Toons March '03.
  • The music video, which features Tunstall as a ski jumper, was filmed at the Olympic Ski Jumping Hill in Lillehammer, Norway.

Comments: 1

  • Louise from London, United KingdomKT Tunstall was actually adopted at birth, and i have a feeling that this song is dedicated to her real parents and saying how, as the lyrics say, if only you could see me now.
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