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Oh man, sappy love song. Possibly depressing, too. Which is not to say I don’t like it, because I love it. This song was meant to be in the movie in the tent scene when Pocahontas and John Smith say their goodbyes before Smith’s execution, but it was deemed too draggy and axed. And as much as I love this song and as much as I want to see more screentime of the romance, I understand why it was cut out. It is sappy, and little kiddies can only take so much sap. Anyway, this single version was sung by Shanice and Jon Secada, and if you don’t know them you don’t know your early nineties pop rock and pop ballads.

I remember the first time I listened to this song after watching the movie. I could feel that it belonged to the story, but at the time I didn’t know it was meant for the tent scene. So I shut my eyes and listened to song with the movie in my head, and my mental image placed Pocahontas and John Smith singing it separately after the end of the movie, Pocahontas in her hut in Virginia and Smith in some hospital in England, and both of them are gazing out the roof opening/window at the stars (a la An American Tail).

Anyway, it’s still a great song.

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If I never knew you
If I never felt this love
I would have no inkling of
How precious life can be

And if I never held you
I would never have a clue
How at last I find in you
The missing part of me

In this world so full of fear
Full of rage and lies
I can see the truth so clear
In your eyes
So dry your eyes

And I’m so grateful to you
I’d have lived my whole life through
Lost forever
If I never knew you

If I never knew you
I’d be safe by half as real
Never knowing how I could feel
A love so strong and true

I’m so grateful to you
I’d have lived my whole life through
Lost forever
If I never knew you

I thought our love would be so beautiful
Somehow we make the whole world bright
I never knew that fear and hate could be so strong
All they’d leave us were these whispers in the night
But still my heart is saying we were right
 

Oh, if I never knew you
If I never knew your love
I would have no inkling of
How precious life can be		 There’s no moment I regret
Since the moment that we met
If our time has gone too fast
I’ve lived at last

I thought our love would be so beautiful
Somehow we make the whole world bright
I thought our love would be so beautiful
We’d turn the darkness into light
And still my heart is saying we were right
We were right

And if I never knew you
(If I never knew you)
I’d have lived my whole life through
Empty as the sky
Never knowing why
Lost forever
If I never knew you