The Life That Could Have Been Songtext / Lyric

I meet someone the other day

It's good to see her face again

She's the one who got a way

Way back when



Showed photos of her family

Soon to marry mum to be

She used to want all that with me

And she smiled and I laughed



Then I imagined if I didn't take that fight

What would my world be like?

Would I be standing at the altar by her side?



Would her child be mine?

And I think that I've just seen

The life that could have been



She's happy now and that's a fact

And who am I to mess with that

So I won't try to get her back

In a way I'm glad






'Cause that was then and this is now

Still I can't help but think about

All the things that I'm without

But I wave the white flag



Then I imagined if I didn't take that fight

What would my world be like?

Would I be standing at the altar by her side?



Would her child be mine?

And I think that I've just seen

The life that could have been



And as she was walking away

I thought I saw her

Turn back and hesitate

Look at me as if to say



I imagined if you didn't take that fight

What would my world be like?

Would you be standing at the altar by my side?

What would our child look like?



Then I imagined if I didn't take that fight

What would my world be like?

Would I be standing at the altar by her side?



Would her child be mine?

And it's the strangest thing

And I think that I've just seen

The life that could have been



The life that could have been