Broadway production (2014) If/Then the Musical - What If? Lyrics
(performs Idina Menzel - What If? lyrics)
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
Then, what if, what if, what if you wonder what if, what if?
What if I always belonged in the city that moves me with people who thrill me? The marriage, the mortgage, I left them behind me before they could kill me? My plan was 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 this I know, I just need to take care Be smart, self-sufficient, and hyper-aware 'Cos I'm flirting with 40, 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 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? Oh God, 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 could 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
And then, then, what if, what if, what if you wonder, what if?
See each choice you make is a 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'd stayed there with Kate?
(And then) What if? What if? (Then) What if? What if I knew (if you knew what would happen) What would I do? (if you knew would you know what to do?) What if I choose will I change things forever? When I leap will I fall off the cliff? I choose and there's no turning back No turning back No turning back And you wonder, 'what if?' (what if, what if?) What if?
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If/Then the Musical Songs Lyrics
SYNOPSIS What If? It's a Sign A Map of New York You Never Know Ain't No Man Manhattan What the Fuck? Here I Go You Don't Need to Love Me No More Wasted Time Surprise This Day / Walking By A Wedding Hey Kid Some Other Me Best Worst Mistake The Moment Explodes I Love You, I Hate You Learn to Live Without Love While You Can What Would You Do? Always Starting Over What If? (Reprise) Finale
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