What I Know Now - King Calaway

If I knew then what I know now If I knew then, you'd be here right now I'd trade the world and its gold, to have and to hold The one thing in life I love If I knew then, oh, what I know now We would never have drifted apart If I had only taken your dream and made it part of mine If I knew then, oh, what I know now If I knew then, oh, what I know now We would never have drifted apart If I had only taken your dream made it part of mine If I knew then what I know now

Kenny Rogers & Gladys Knight Well, hello girl, tell me, how have you been? By the way, I'll never make the same mistake again And you know girl, it's been a long hard time Nothing like back when you were mine. And if I knew then what I know now I'd have found the way To make things work out somehow I'd have held you tight I'd have treated you right If I knew then what I know now. It's a crazy world for a boy and a girl Harder than it is for a woman and a man Oh, it was easy then just to push you away Guess I never knew how I feel today. If we knew then what I know now I'd have found the way To make things work out somehow I'd have held you tight I'd have treated you right If I knew then what I know now. You know I do things differently If you ever come back to me If we could just go back in time There's no broken heart Girl, we're at the start this time...

I was hot I went to parties a lot Y'know? I was driving Lamborghinis Sipping super-dry martinis In the tiniest bikinis on a yacht But I was depressed Also completely obsessed An unhappy beauty queen Who dreamed to be Miss Argentina I had such low self-esteem I was a mess So I gave it all up for the netherworld I've been here forever, girl If I was more clever, girl I would've stuck it out Knowing what life's about Pain and joy and suffering Failing but recovering I'll tell you another thing Everyone here is alone So if you are breathing Go home! If I knew then What I know now I would have looked within and let love in somehow If I only knew The truth back then I wouldn't have had my little accident Don't be blind You left your whole life behind See a shrink Call a priest Ask the recently deceased Death is final and you cannot press rewind Don't jump when the light is red Toasters should be used for bread Never smoke cigars in bed Nietzsche was right, y'know, to live is to suffer, bro Don't cheat on the one you wed Never whip a thoroughbred Angry pygmys shrunk his head Why did it take death to see Happiness was up to me? If I knew then What I know now I would've laughed and danced And lanced every sacred cow I thought I knew But I was wrong 'Cause life is short But death is super long I exploded! If I knew then (If I knew) What I know now I would've crossed every line And drank all the wine Before my final bow If I knew (If I knew) The things that now I know I would ride the highs and cherish the lows Going, it's a quick trick 'round the rodeo So before they lower the curtain, be certain to enjoy the show That's what I know! Life is short but death is long Here, one minute then it's gone Thought I knew but I was wrong If I only knew what I know now!

She was a blue-eyed rebel child with a Sunday morning smile I was 17, knew everything except how to make her mine I picked her up in dad's old truck and that night I kissed her A first love grew wings while the fireflies blinked by the Tennessee River And we sang along to the radio And we danced when they played one slow Nothing better to do but fall in love And watch the old river flow Let it flow, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Let it flow, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh He dropped me off and picked me up again a hundred times that summer We grew up a little more every time that we saw each other I learned her middle name and her favorite color, just lying out there with her With the moon through the trees, with the birds and the bees on a Tennessee River And we sang along to the radio And we danced when they played one slow Nothing better to do but fall in love And watch the old river flow Let it flow, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Let it flow, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Sometimes, I take the long way home, past that cobble bridge Watch the sun go down, just think about those two stupid kids It ain't too much, but sometimes I stop and let myself miss her Where our love grew wings, yeah, I still think about the Tennessee River Yeah, we sang along to the radio And we danced when they played one slow Nothing better to do but fall in love And watch the old river flow Nothing better to do but fall in love And watch the old river flow Let it flow, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Let it flow, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh