What If by The Blue Dragon

One of my favorite original songs. After writing quite a few songs that were... less than happy... I wanted to write one that was a bit more optimistic (after all I'm not mopey all the time).
This song serves as a sort of successor to my song Goodbye, because I wanted to find some way to express how I think when it comes to my goals. There are lots of things that can go wrong, but things can also go right. When is the reward worth the risk?
This song took more work than any of my other originals to date. Everything was written, performed and orchestrated by myself.

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[Verse 1]
When it’s so easy to fail,
That it’s easier to bail;
When it seems the stars have aligned,
To leave you hopelessly resigned.

When all the reasons have you clutchin’ at your hair,
And the repercussions feel like more than you can bear,
Do you take the easy way and walk off in despair?
Aside from you would anybody even care?

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Well there’s just one thing I hold on to,
When I’m slipping down the slope;
I hold tight on to this one small piece of hope.

[Chorus 1]
What if I make it all the way?
Yeah what if I make it through the fray?
What if everything we ever dreamed could be, we really find someday?
Yeah what if we make it all the way?

[Verse 2]
But what if I’m stopped and end up forcibly restrained?
What if I’m too week and I get lost or lead astray?
What if I’m too slow and everything gets blown away?
Maybe it would be smarter just to let the whole thing lay…

Only I’ve worked too hard and gone too far to back away,
But what if you’re so far gone that all that I can do is pray?
I need a miracle but God’s on holiday.
But even so I just can’t help in wonderin’…

[Pre-Chorus 2]
At that one shot in a million,
That diamond in the rough,
That feeling so damn good, you just can’t get enough.

It might very well be crazy,
But I can’t resist the ,
And I’m thinkin’ that I’m gonna risk it all

[Chorus 2]
Cause what if I make it all the way?
What if I make it through the fray?
What if everything we ever dreamed could be, we really find someday?
Yeah what if I make it all the way?

[Bridge]
And I still feel that pain when I stare off into the blue,
But it’s a small price for the thought of finally, getting back to you.
And you should know, that in the end there’s nothin’,
That I wouldn’t do to get to you,
To get to you

So let the world cry trepidation,
When faced with “come what may”,
Cause if you ask me “what if”,
This is what I’ll say:

[Chorus 3]
What if I make it? (Make it all the way),
What if I make it through the fray?
What if everything we ever dreamed could be, we really find someday?
Yeah what if I make it all the way?

Release date
December 02, 2017