If You Asked Me To

Album

Single

Label

Epic records

Genre

Adult contemporary

Media Type

45s

Duration

3:55

Composer(s)

Diane Warren

Entered Chart

Apr 25, 1992

Peak Date

Jul 11, 1992

Released

March 1992

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Epic 74277

B-Side

"Love You Blind"

Original Artist

Patti LaBelle

Celine Dion's recording of "If You Asked Me To" was issued by Columbia and Epic Records as the second single from her 1992 self-titled studio album. Produced by Guy Roche, it was released in Canada and the United States in March 1992, followed later that year by international distribution. The single includes a non-album B-side, "Love You Blind", written by Sheryl Crow and Jay Oliver and produced by Walter Afanasieff. "If You Asked Me To" was later added to the North American editions of Dion's greatest hits albums All the Way... A Decade of Song (1999) and My Love: Essential Collection (2008).

Used to be that I believed in something
Used to be that I believed in love
It's been a long time since I've had that feeling
I could love someone
I could trust someone

I said I'd never let nobody near my heart again, darling
I said I'd never let nobody in, but

If you asked me to
I'd just might change my mind
And let you in my life forever
If you asked me to
I'd just might give my heart
And stay here in your arms forever
If you asked me to
If you asked me to
Ba-ba-ba-baby, oh, yeah

Somehow ever since I've been around you
Can't go back to being on my own
Can't help feeling darlin' since I've found you
That I've found my home
That I'm finally home

I said I'd never let nobody get too close to me, darling
I said I needed, needed to be free

But if you asked me to
I'd just might change my mind
And let you in my life forever
If you asked me to
I'd just might give my heart
And stay here in your arms forever
If you asked me to
If, if you

Ask me to, I will give my world to you, baby
I need you now (I need you know)
Ask me to, and I'll do anything (anything)
For you baby, for you baby

(If you asked me to)
I'll let you in my life forever
(If you asked me to)
All you gotta do is ask me to
All you gotta do, all you gotta do
All you gotta do is ask me to

(If you asked me to) I'd give you my world
I'd give you my heart
Everything, everything baby
(If you asked me to) just ask me to
I think you can ask me if you wanted to do

Just ask me to
(If you asked me to)
I'd change my mind
I'll change my mind