If I Had My Time Again

作词 : Tim Minchin

作曲 : Tim Minchin

[RITA HANSON] Sometimes, it's like I'm stumbling forward

Hustled forward

Jostled from behind by time

Sometimes, it's like I'm being dragged

Yet always lagging

Trying to keep in time with time

But if I could stop the clock for just one day

If I could freeze a moment for a moment

Rest before the measure's over

Hold the beat for just one day

If I could wind it back and start afresh

Just a day to catch my breath

To make mistakes and set them right

Delay the coming of the night

If I had my time again

I would do it all the same

They say, but that's insane

Wouldn't you want to make a couple of changes?

Regrets, I'd not even have a few

If I could do this thing that you

Say you can do

I've always dreamt of learning how to dance

[PHIL CONNORS] Some days I go out without pants

[RITA] It's so exciting

[PHIL] I slept with ninety

[RITA] A new beginning

[PHIL] Percent of women

[RITA] Every morning

[PHIL] In Punxsutawney

[RITA] To have the time to strive for more

[PHIL] Between eighteen and eighty-four

And one dude when I was bored

[RITA] If I had my time again

I'd take the path less trodden

Avoid the crap I trod in

Read a lot of books

[PHIL] I've stolen eighteen million bucks

[RITA] And I would worry less about my looks

[PHIL] And I guess I'll do it again

[RITA] And I would be a lot more zen

[PHIL] When

[RITA] And I would punch

[PHIL] I

[RITA] A lot of men

[PHIL] Had

[RITA] If I had

[RITA & PHIL] My time again

[RITA] If I had my time again

I would do it all the same

They claim, but that's ridiculous

Surely you'd want to make a couple of fixes?

All those boxes left unchecked

All the dreams you left neglected

You'd go back and put it right

I've always fancied learning how to climb

[PHIL] I once masturbated seven times

[RITA] I'd study math

[PHIL] In the bath

[RITA] And search for meaning

[PHIL] In one evening

[RITA] And I'd run up hills

[PHIL] It wasn't fun, but still

[RITA] I'd learn to paint

[PHIL] A man my age

[RITA & PHIL] Just to know

It's nice to know

I can

[PHIL] It's nice to know I can

[RITA] If I had my time again

I'd sample all the samples

Look at things from different angles

I would not do it all the same

If I had my time again

[RITA & ENSEMBLE] If I had my time again

[RITA] The things I'd handle better

I would send my unsent letters

[PHIL] I've started seven hundred fights

[RITA] If I had my time back

[PHIL] And if you knew the endless nights

That I have wasted getting wasted

Contemplating different ways to suicide

[RITA] I would write and I would write

[PHIL] And I have tried every food and every drink and every cheat

[RITA & PHIL]

And I would bring joy to other （And every choice a thousand）

people's lives （times）

（And I daily eat about a dozen donuts and I don't know why）

And I would learn piano （And I don't know... why?）

And I would make a lot of

friends

If I had my time

[RITA & COMPANY] If I had my time again

[RITA & PHIL]

I'd open all the doors I never (And I opened all the doors you)

looked behind before (never looked behind before)

And oh (And I)

The things I'd taste, the things

I'd try (I find the thing with these)

(I find the thing with these revolving rides)

And the misery I could prevent

(They're only fun 'cause you know they're going to end)

And I would make a lot of friends

If I had my time

Again

(Again, I have had it, I have had my time again)