Brian Yorkey - What If? lyrics

[Guitar Player:] Here's how it starts And here's how it ends [Singer 1:] Two different hearts Maybe lovers or friends [Company:] No one knows the ways The long road bends [Singer 1:] Once every day your life starts again [Guitar Player:] No one can say just how or just when [Company:] Somehow the world turns inside out and then And then... What if? What if? What if you wonder? What if? What if? [Elizabeth:] What if I always belonged In the city the moves me With people who thrill me The marriage, the mortgage I left them behind me Before they could k** me My plan is just perfect Courageous and daring To start my life new Now I look at this morning It moves me to say "Oh my God, what the hell did I do?" I can do to this, I know I just need to take care You're smart, self sufficient And hyper aware As I'm flirting with forty There's no time to wait And I can't help but feel I'm already too late! Tell me what if I'm bound for disaster? What if I fall off the cliff? Will I ever just learn how to live And not wonder what if? What if? Do I go there with Lucas Or stay here with Kate? Why do I do this? Obsess and debate I've been prudent and cautious For all my life long And most of my choices Turned out to be wrong Tell me how can this make any difference? How could it matter at all? How do I make such a major event Out of something so small? [Josh:] Once every day your life starts again No one can say just how or just when [Company:] Somehow the world turns inside out and then... And then... And then! What if? What if? What if you wonder? What if? [Elizabeth (Company):] See each choice you make as kind of a loss Each turn that you take And each coin that you toss You lose all the choices You don't get to make You wonder about All the turns you don't take And so what if I'd gone there with Lucas? (What if? What if?) And then what if I'd answered that phone? (What if? What if?) Think of all of the things you'd have done If only you'd known... (Here's how it starts And here's how it ends) What if I'd gone there with Lucas? (Two different roads And how each one bends?) What if I stayed there with Kate? (And then...) What if? What if? (And then...) What if? What if I knew? (If you knew would know what to do?) What will I do? (If you knew would know what to do?) What if I choose will I change things forever? If I leap will I fall of a cliff? If I choose then there's no turning back... No turning back No turning back! And you wonder what if? (What if? What if?) What if?