What-ifs, Maybes And Might-have-beens Lyrics - Thick As A Brick 2 - Jethro Tulls Ian Anderson

We all must wonder, now and then, 

If things had turned out - well - just plain different. 

Chance path taken, page unturned or brief encounter, blossomed, splintered. 

Might I have been the man of courage, brave upon life's battlefield, 

Captain Commerce, high-flown banker, hedonistic, down-at-heel? 

A Puritan of moral fibre, voice raised in praise magnificent? 

Or rested in assured repose, knowing my lot in quiet content. 

What-ifs, Maybes and Might-have-beens fly, soft petals on a breeze. 

What-ifs, Maybes and Might-have-beens. 

Why-nots, Perhaps and Wait-and-sees. 

Suppose bold woman, quite unsuited, brave in adventure, sojourns wicked. 

Velvet touch and lips soft-centred, tossing hair, teeth bared in laughing. 

Imagine idyll Summers never-ending, Winter nights beside fire roaring. 

Touched by madness, filled with fondness, kissed by love, love without name. 

What-ifs, Maybes and Might-have-beens fly, soft petals on a breeze. 

What-ifs, Maybes and Might-have-beens. 

Why-nots, Perhaps and Wait-and-sees.