Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Ian Anderson
Canonical path: /ian-anderson/might-have-beens
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Might-have-beens
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Might-have-beens
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We all must wonder, now and then, if things had turned out - well - just plain different.
Chance path taken, page unturned or brief encounter, blossomed, splintered.
Might you have been the man of courage, brave upon life's battlefield,
Captain Commerce, high-flown banker, hedonistic, down-at-heel?
A Puritan of moral fibre, voice raised in praise magnificent?
Or rested in assured repose, knowing your lot in quiet content?
What-ifs, Maybes and Might-have-beens fly
Soft petals on a breeze
What-ifs, Maybes and Might-have-beens
Why-nots, Perhaps and Wait-and-sees
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Ian Anderson performs "Might-have-beens", and this lyric page sits inside the Ian Anderson catalog on LyroVerse.
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