New Yorker:
Here's how it starts
And here's how it ends
Another New Yorker:
Two different hearts
Maybe lovers, or friends
New Yorkers:
No one knows the ways the long road bends
Busker:
Once every day
Your life starts again
Drummer:
No one can say
Just how or just when
Busker & Drummer :
Somehow the world turns inside out and then
New Yorkers :
And then
What if
What if
What if
You wonder
What if
What if
Elizabeth "
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,
'Cause I'm flirting with forty, there's no time to wait,
And I can't help but feel I'm already too late
New Yorkers :
It's never too late
Elizabeth :
But 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?
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?
Josh :
Once every day
Your life starts again
No one can say
Just how or just when
Josh and New Yorkers :
Somehow the world turns inside out and then
And then...
New Yorkers :
What if, what if, what if
You wonder
What if
Elizabeth :
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?
And then what if I'd answered that phone?
Think of all of the things you'd have done
If only you'd known
New Yorkers :
Here's how it starts
And here's how it ends
Liz :
What if I'd gone there with Lucas?
New Yorkers :
Two different roads
And how each one bends
Beth :
What if I'd stayed there with Kate?
Elizabeth (& New Yorkers) :
What if (And then)
What if (And then)
What if
What if I knew (If you knew what would come what would happen)
What would I do? (If you knew would you know what to do?)
Elizabeth & New Yorkers :
What if I (you) choose, will I (you) change things forever?
If I (you) leap, will I fall off the cliff?
(You fear that you'll fall off the cliff)
If you choose, then there's no turning back
No turning back
No turning back