If I Could've Been

If I could have been What I could have been I could have been something I wanted to be a writer A major league baseball player Own a little farm If what I could be Had been left to be I could have been something But then I got married Then the kids came along And then my dad took sick A tower of strength A center of power At ten bucks an hour There's always a stumbling block I was gonna work for a few years Buy me a car, head West Well, I met the wife, that kinda changed my plans You never know what you woulda did If I could've done What I could've done I could've done big things With some luck to do What I want to do I could've done big things Swam a few rivers Climbed a few hills Paid all my bills Now it's just dreams That I'm stuck with And hell That ain't a lot to show I haven't far from the starting line But deep down inside where it counts, I know I know, I know I know that if I If I could've gone (If I could've gone) Where I could've gone (Where I could've gone) I could've gone places (I could've gone far away) With Leeway to go Far as I could go I would've gone places I could've gone far away To the front of the line The top of the tier A long way from here (I could have been) Way back then I had ambition (Way back then) A lot of stamina and guts (Oh, way back when) I never took "No" for an answer It was tougher to fight All those If's And's or But's All those If's And's or But's But if I But if I If I could've been (If I could've been) What I could've been (What I could have been) I could've been somethin' (Something special) If my destiny (If my destiny) Had been left to me (Had been left to me) I would've been somethin' (I could've been something) If they had just let me go (If they had just let me go) Where I was rarin' to go When I was rarin' to go (When I was rarin' to go) Back then (If they had just let me go) God only knows God only knows, God only knows, God only knows What I could've been (I could've been something) What I could've been (I could've been someone) What I could've been (I could've been someone special) What I could've been (Top of the tier) What I could've been (I could've been someone) What I could've been (I could've gone somewhere special)