If I Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda

I coulda been a little more understanding

And I'd still be loving you right now

I shoulda been smarter

I could've used my head

And we'd still be together somehow

If I coulda, woulda, shoulda

That's what folks always say

If I coulda, woulda, shoulda

And it's always too late

I'm sayin' it now

I'm sayin' it now

If I woulda stopped it

Before it all got started out

I wouldn't be so sad and lonely without you

I wish there was a way

To turn back the hands of time

I'd do it different

If I had it to do all over again

If I coulda, woulda, shoulda

That's what folks always say

If I coulda, woulda, shoulda

And it's always too late

I'm sayin' it now (Sayin' it now)

Sayin' it now (I'm sayin' it now)

You know

I'm gonna profit from all my mistakes

I'll never do the same thing

Same way

All over again

Oh, well I coulda been

A little more understanding

And I'd still be loving you right now

Y'know, I coulda been smarter

I coulda used my head

And we'd still be together somehow

I said

If I coulda, woulda, shoulda

That's what folks always say

If I coulda, woulda, shoulda

But it's always too late

I'm sayin' it now (Sayin' it now)

Sayin' it now (I'm sayin' it now)

Well

If I coulda, woulda, shoulda

If I coulda, woulda, shoulda

How many times have you said that to yourself?

Or have you heard someone else say it?

"You know, if I had just had

Or if I would've had the chance

You know, I'd have done a lot better than I did, man"

Or you know, like they have big sales, you say

"Boy, if I had just, if I woulda just went down there to that sale

While they was havin' it on

I could have got me some real dynamite bargains, man

I should have went down there, y'know?"

We always say that

We always a day late and a dollar short

We always sayin'

If I coulda, woulda, shoulda

If I coulda, woulda, shoulda

You know, there comes a time in everybody's life

When they make that statement

"If I would have just"

Or "I could have just"

Or the bottom line is, "I should have just"

And you always wind up on the outside lookin' in

Talkin' 'bout

If I coulda, woulda, shoulda

If I coulda, woulda, shoulda

If I coulda, I woulda, and I shoulda

(If I coulda, woulda, shoulda)

If I coulda, woulda, shoulda

If I coulda, woulda, shoulda