If I Could Sing: Lyrics from the Soul is a collection of modern American standards written in the spirit of the Great Songbook — bold, theatrical, intimate, and unafraid of emotional weight.

Across foxtrots, torch ballads, sweeping finales, and late-night confessions, Akiva David explores anticipatory grief, fractured family bonds, restless longing, cultural echo, addiction, technology, and the search for melody in a noisy age.

These songs ask enduring questions:

What was it all about?

What remains when love becomes competition?

Is originality possible in a world of echoes?

Can randomness still surprise us?

Rooted in the harmonic sophistication of Porter, Mercer, Arlen, and Rodgers & Hart, yet written from a distinctly contemporary interior, this album revisits the form of the American standard as a vessel for modern doubt, longing, irony, and hope.

It is not nostalgia.

It is conversation.

It is what might have been sung —

if we still sang that way.