THE IF IN LIFE



If you could have ya cake n eat it too
What would ya do
Would you be a fool, jump in the pool
Knowin ya can’t swim or be cool
Get an education, be enlightened or
Just take classes in Life school
Where emotions rule n bulls do what
Most animals do, wreck havoc on ya environment
Ya social mores, cause ya outta ya element
Sufferin from arrested development
What would, are ya gonna do
Met Life can’t save you
That’s insurance for ya pit n pratfalls
When life calls n ya ball n fall
Give it ya all n ya come up short
What’s the point in sport if ya can’t
Make a mistake, if ya can’t recreate
Why eat cake if its gonna give u a bellyache
If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride
Its not that you’ve been lied to
No 1 confides in you, abides wit what ya do
If ya are allergic to knowledge, then it hides from you
If is such a small word wit a big meanin
A conjunction wit world shakin functions
Altercations almost like an ultimatum
An exclamatory proposition, a possibility
Like malnutrition if ya don’t eat proper
A stipulation, a supposition like
If and or but, like what’s up
In the event of, that, if I was to go, what would I do
If she loved me, she’d be true
If I was a giant instead of a midget
If I had money, would life be sunny
Or would the rains, pains, strains n stains
Still drain, arrange, change, in ya mindset
If you was waterproof, ya wouldn’t get wet
What if the world is an ugly place
Cause we fill up all the spaces wit hatred
Death, dismemberment n disfigurement
Because we can’t face it
Life is a gift, get lifted, spirits can drift
N the dead don’t really need or want it
If ya could come back, have to suffer
Have Love forever, would ya bother to harbor
Any misgivins, if livin was easy
But ya had to be greasy, would ya be queasy
If it freed ya, what if there was an easy button
Would ya turn the other cheek, be careful when ya speak
I would if I could, but I can’t
The if in life is what puts ya in the paint
Is it important, as a sinna or a saint
If only Life was that appeasin.