The love of my life is in a hotel in Michigan
Riding the elevator down to reception
To ask the nice lady at the front desk
If she would put a bandaid
on the back of his head

She wouldn't, so he just
threw his shit in the car
Grabbed a couple bottles from the minibar
Trying to make light conversation with the wannabes
Trying to watch the opener
Hiding in the gallery

What if I got what I wanted?
What if I was who I wanna be?
What if I got what I wanted?
What if I knew how to be?

The love of my life wants to grow up
funny-looking
Travel thе world and raise some good-for-nothing kids
In an old red housе by the river
And die ignoring a black spot on his liver

But he's drunk at the venue
Stumbling through the encore
Talking up a blue streak
Smoking by the stage door
Calling me before he falls asleep
Doesn't think I'd last a week out there
That's fair but

What if I got what I wanted?
What if I was who I wanna be?
What if I got what I wanted?
What if I knew how to be?

Now he's making the bed like a Vietnam vet
But it's not God and country
It's his mom in his head

And he's reading out loud from Walk Two Moons
Feeling all proud 'cause he taught me to
Play that guitar collecting dust in the corner
And open up a beer bottle
with a quarter

What if I got what I wanted?
What if I was who I wanna be?
What if I got what I wanted?
In love with the person who's in love with me