Here's how it starts and here's how it ends

Two different hearts

Maybe lovers or friends

No one knows the ways the long road bends

Once every day your life starts again

No one can say just how or just when

Somehow the world turns inside out and then

And then

What if what if you wonder
What if what if

What if I always belonged in the city
The moves me the people that thrill me

The marriage the mortgage
I left them behind me before
They could kill me the plan is just
Perfect courageous and daring to start my life new

And I look at this morning and it moves me to say
Oh my god what the hell did I do

And to this I know I just need to take care

I'm smart and 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

And tell me what if I'm bound for disaster

What if I fall off a 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 turn 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

Once every day your life starts again

No one can say just how or just when

Somehow the world turns inside out and then

What if
What if
What if you wonder
What if

See each choice that you make as kind of a loss

Each turn that you take 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 got 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 would have
Done if only you'd known

What if I go there with Lucas

What if I stay there with Kate

What if  What if What if

What if I knew  what would I do

What if I choose and I change things forever

Can I leave when I fall of a cliff

If I choose there's no turning back

No turning back    no turning back

You wonder what if  What if