"If I Can't Love Her" é uma canção cantada pela Fera no musical e também no Ato I. Bela, assustada por sua vida após birra violenta da Fera sobre sua intrusão na Ala Oeste, fugiu do palácio. A Fera consciente de seu erro potencialmente fatal percebe que ele terá que mudar os seus caminhos se ele quer quebrar o seu encantamento. A canção é particularmente famosa por seu elemento espetacular da Fera em pé sobre uma varanda com vista para o céu estrelado.
Letra[]
And in my twisted face
There's not the slightest trace
Of anything that even hints of kindness
And from my tortured shape
No comfort, no escape
I see, but deep within is utter blindness
Hopeless
As my dream dies
As the time flies
Love a lost illusion
Helpless
Unforgiven
Cold and driven
To this sad conclusion
No beauty could move me
No goodness improve me
No power on earth, if I can't love her
No passion could reach me
No lesson could teach me
How I could have loved her and make her love me too
If I can't love her, then who?
Long ago I should have seen
All the things I could have been
Careless and unthinking, I moved onward
No pain could be deeper
No life could be cheaper
No point anymore, if I can't love her
No spirit could win me
No hope left within me
Hope I could have loved her and that she'd set me free
But it's not to be
If I can't love her
Let thou world be done with me.
Reprise[]
No spell has been broken
No words have been spoken,
No point anymore if she can't love me
No hope she would do so
No dream to pursue so
I finally know that I shall always be
In this hopeless state
And condemned to wait...
Wait for death to set me... free
