Original Broadway Cast, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Patti Cohenour, Betty Buckley - Perfect Strangers lyrics

If we were perfect strangers
How perfect life could be!
I'd know if I adore you -
You'd know if you love me
Too much we've seen together to judge
The view too much we've been together
And I assumed the future -

And I presumed that you were there
And yet I wondered where we met
If we were perfect strangers
I'd find my way with ease
I'd know the path before me, the forest
From the trees
Could life be real without you?
You're always there how do I feel about you?
I care too near to touch you!
My dearest ned, how much you mean to me
But are we lovers, how would we know it?
How could we feel it? How would we show it?

How much you've been to me! Brother
Sister i - I pray you'll take this clasp
Left to me by my mother
As a vow of my eternal
Friendship god bless you
How do I feel about you? God bless you, dear
I care too near to touch you!
My dearest ned, how much you mean to me
But are we lovers, how would we know it?
How could we feel it? How would we show it?
How much you've been to me!
If we'd been perfect strangers
I might have loved you perfectly ah