if I was just a boy once more
back in the old town
doing boys stuff with
the old gang and the bell rang
for the school day
I wonder if I'd stay
and learn this time,

and if I met you then again
would it be different
or the same
would that I could feel
that fresh pain
of my first love.

but it's ifs and ifs don't work
they're just like a might have been
and we've all seen them pan out,

what if ifs could be made to happen?
happen then in some time machine
I could be that might have been
that never was but is now.