If I Could Go Back

Why is it that when we grow up we stress about the past.

We cry about all of the things we wish we could take back.

Guilt surrounds our hearts, and the hope starts to fade.

Then worries blast into our heads like a gossip filled grenade.

If I had a magic wand, and maybe a book of spells,

I’d go back, change my future, and no one would tell.

I was thinking to myself, there's a lot that’s in my past.

So I’d take a breath, and just redo the things that didn’t last.

Starting off…

Get a stomach ache from laughing; show my teeth a little more.

I would dance like they all vanished. Try things I never did before.

Songs would dance upon notes louder. I would make my voice be heard, 

Not be blind to all the little things, like a tiny, quiet, bird.

I’d shed tears at all the movies. I’d chase after all the boys. 

I would make some better friends. Do the things that I enjoyed.

Love till my heart overflows, and go to church each day.

I would get a job I like, and not care about the pay. 

I’d enclose myself with family, and never move away.

If I could go back…

I wouldn’t sell myself out, like a penny on the street.

I would stand so tall that no mean girl could ever look down on me.

They laughed about it then, but did caring help our lives?

Still I tried to be their friend, oh man I tried, I tried, I tried.

I wish I had just accepted that forever I am me.

Not have changed to be someone, that someone else wanted me to be.

You never know you love someone, until they are gone. 

So just assume that they are yours, and that you belong.

Making the most out of a bad day, is very hard to do.

But don’t look back and realize that the problem, it was you.

I know I can’t go back to change the future of my past. 

I can’t go back and change the things that I know didn’t last.

But that shouldn’t stop you from realizing now. 

That all we have is the present. Just be happy, you know how.

If you open up the door, peace can fill your heart. 

You just have to stay grounded, and know where to start.

Start right here I’m telling you, don’t care about what they say.

Don’t waste away the good times, worrying about the next day.