The Three Degrees - 'If and When' [Live] - Europe 1974

'If and When’ a true soul classic from the peerless Three Degrees

The Three Degrees line-up: Sheila Ferguson, Valerie Holiday, Fayette Pinkney

Lyrics:
Through these eyes
I can see loneliness heading my way
The light of love has gone out
Now your shadow's gone away
You took away the sound
The touch, the smell, my sight
To see your smile

Oh, if and when
You're headed back this way
Where love was found
Want you to know this girl
Will be around (still be around)
If you decide to mend a heart
That you broke in pieces

You told me when we first met
That you'd soon being going away
Because there is somebody else
Demanding all your time
She took away the sound
The touch, the smell, my sight
To see your smile

Oh, if and when
You're headed back this way
Where love was found
Want you to know this girl
Will be around (still gonna be around)
If you decide to mend a heart
That you broke in pieces, oh, baby

Loneliness, loneliness
Come on, come on back to me
I need your love,
If and when (oh, baby)
You're headed back this way where love was found
Ooh, I need you
Want you to know this girl will still be around

If and when
You're back this way again
Come on back to me
If and when
You're headed back this way where love was found
Please, please, please
Want you to know this girl will still be around
If and when
Come on back to me again
You're headed back this way where love was found
Want you to know this girl will still be around
If and when
You're back this way again
If and when

Songwriters: B. Sigler / J.B. Jefferson / Lenny Pakula