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I only have eyes for you.
This risks sounding a bit apologetic. As if I wish I'd thought to bring you a nice cup of tea as well, but you're going to have to make do with my eyes because that's all I've got with me.
I have only eyes for you.
This reinforces the fact that my eyes are all you're going to get.
I have eyes only for you.
A third version suggests that the unique reason behind me having eyes in the first place is because I needed something to look at you with.
I have eyes for only you.
The final version brings us to the crux of the matter – I am not prone to ogling anyone else, simply because they are wearing something more revealing than you are. You matter more than anything else.
You can judge for yourself which is the most romantic, but it really does matter where you place 'only' in a sentence because you can end up saying something quite different to what you intended. Put the 'only' immediately before the word you want it to apply to:
Customers need only to apply... (it's easy to get what you want)
Customers only need to apply... (if you're not a customer, go away)
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