What Did I Have That I Don't Have? Lyrics

1965 Broadway
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever the Musical - What Did I Have That I Don't Have? Lyrics

The song is written by Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner.

DAISY:
I don't know why they redesign’d me...
He likes the way he used to find me.
He likes the girl I left behind me.
I mean, he... I mean, me...

What did I have that I don't have?
What did he like that I lost track of?
What did I do that I don't do
The way I did before?

What isn't there that once was there?
What have I got a great big lack of?
Something in me then,
He could see then,
Beckons to him no more.

I'm
Just a victim of Time,
Obsolete in my prime!
Out of date and outclassed
By my past.

What did he love that there's none of?
What did I lose the sweet warm knack of?
Wouldn't I be
The late great me
If I knew how?
Oh! What did I have I don't have now?

Where
Can I go to repair
All the wear and the tear;
Till I'm once again the
Previous me?

What did he like that I'm not like?
What was the charm that I've run dry of?
What would I give if my old know-how still knew how!
Oh! What did I have I don't have now?

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
Hurry! It's Lovely Up Here!
Tosy and Cosh
On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
On the S.S. Bernard Cohn
Don't Tamper with My Sister
She Wasn't You
Melinda
When I'm Being Born Again
What Did I Have That I Don't Have?
Wait Till We're Sixty-Five
Come Back to Me
Come Back to Me (Reprise)
Finale