Mike
Imagine I’d not found you
Imagine there’s nothing good to do

Beth
Imagine I’d not found you
Imagine nothing quite went through

Mike
I’d live some kind of lonely life
in a jumble of bottles and strife

Beth
I’d wander lonesome through the night
opening myself to empty dreams of Mr. Right

Mike
I found you when I was young and fresh
before the jags ate through and made a mess

Beth
I found you when I was innocent and soft
before I had time to get myself bitter and lost

Mike
Sans toi, silent tears run my cheeks at thirty three
too late first glimpsing the hurt inside of me

Beth
Sin tu, I doll up too soon for too heavy hands
Just to share a secret I couldn’t learn to stand

Mike
And look at us now so happy and so clean
Beth
We go to church and we think nothing mean

Mike
Lucky the soul who find venom with antidote
Beth
We poured ourselves in each other’s throats
Mike
Each shaped to hold the other’s hatching hurt
Beth
The world watched only tidy jeans and matching shirts
Mike
A lucky break
Beth
Yes

Mike
I know where I would be if I hadn’t met you when I did
I would be in a one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn
working as a property manager, writing books no one read.
wrecking every love that almost ever happened
growing old and friendless while the world feel apart on all sides

Beth
It’s too bad we couldn’t have been in this college movie
It’s too bad we couldn’t have found each other in this college movie
where well-timed kisses seal happy fates
where love is always almost but never quite too late

Mike
Imagine us with a family and a home and the wisdom and strength to do what needs doing in this bleak afterglow!

Beth
Imagine us nearing fifty ready to take our own children to college to meet their own true loves after a couple hours of hilarious and ultimately heart-warming escapades!

Mike
Imagine!