If I Could Start Over

If I Could Start Over

Words and Music by J.K. Coltrain & Mark Canty (BMI)
Copyright 2008

VERSE I
Well I've finally reached the bottom
On the ladder of my life
There's nothing to hold on to
No reason left to fight
So tonight I get down on my knees
A broken man I beg you please
Won't you save me from
The choices I have made

I'll never get a second chance
To take the field or have that dance

CHORUS
If I could start over, I'd do things better
I'd give a little more, take a little less,
Show a little guts, I'd do my best
If I could be someone, I wouldn't be a no one
I'd never make you cry, I wouldn't tell a lie
Forget about myself, think of someone else
If I could start over

VERSE II
And after thirty something wasted years
And thirty million wasted tears
I know I can't get that time back
So I have got to get myself on track
The people who have rescued me
Have saved me from myself it seems
I can't afford to let them down again

And I'll never get a second chance
To take the field or have that dance

REPEAT CHORUS
BREAK
I can't turn back the hands of time
I can't re-write my history
But as time passes you will see
That you can count on me