What if?

[Guitar Player]

Here's how it starts

And here's how it ends

[Soloist]

Two different hearts

Maybe lovers or friends

[All]

No one knows the ways

The long road bends

[Soloist]

Once every day your life starts again

[Guitar Player]

No one can say just how or just when

[All]

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 kill 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

[All]

Somehow the world turns inside out and then

And then

And then!

What if? What if?

What if you wonder?

What if?

[Elizabeth (All)]

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?

• Artist:If/Then (Musical)
• Album:If/Then: A New Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)