If I could have been what I could have been, I could have been something. If what I could be had been left to be, I would have been something. A tower of strength, a center of power, at ten bucks an hour. If I could have been what I could have been, I could have done big things. Some luck to do what I wanted to, I would have done big things. Swam a few rivers, climbed a few hills, paid all my bills. Now it's just dreams that I'm stuck with. Yeah, that ain't a lot to show. I haven't gone far from the starting line, but deep down inside, where it counts, I know. If I could have gone where I could have gone, I could have gone places. There ain't no way to go. Far as I could go, I would have gone places. To the top of the tier, a long way from here. Way back then, I had ambition. Way back then, I had ambition. Way back then, never took no for an answer. It was tougher to fight all those ifs, ands, or buts. All those ifs, ands, or buts. If I could have been what I could have been, I could have been something. If my destiny had been up to me, I would have been something. If they had just let me go where I was raring to go, when I was raring to go back then. God only knows. What I could have been. What I could have been. What I could have been. What I could have been. What I could have been. What I could have been. What I could have been. What I could have been. What I could have been. What I could have been. What I could have been.