Lyrics
(Ooaawhhaa… oohh…)
(What if…?)
[Male Vocal]
We all walk around like we know ourselves,
Showing one version to everybody else.
Keeping certain truths where they can’t be seen, Then wondering why they don’t know what we really mean. We all do it.
Midnight scrolling, comparing our lives,
Looking at somebody else through a highlight. Everybody wants love, everybody wants attention, But nobody wants to admit when they’re desperate for connection.
We talk, we flirt, we get attached,
Tell ourselves we ain’t expecting nothing back. Then somebody disappears and suddenly it hurts, Now we’re questioning what we did, what they did first.
Who takes the blame when nobody wants it Who says, “I did that,” when pride gets involved Maybe we’re all waiting for somebody else To admit what happened wasn’t entirely our fault.
But what if…
[Hook]
Don’t wanna take the fault…
If that’s all it takes to make it happen.
We’d rather say, “It wasn’t me,”
Than ask ourselves what if it was
Don’t wanna take the fault…
If that’s all it takes to make it happen.
Everybody pointing somewhere else,
But what if we’re the reason that it does
What if I was wrong
What if you were too
What if neither one of us
Ever knew the whole truth
Don’t wanna take the fault…
If that’s all it takes to make it happen.
(But what if…?)
[Male Vocal]
We’ve all got something we don’t say at first, Something we’re afraid might change what we’re worth. So we give somebody pieces, let ’em fill in the rest,
Then get mad when their picture ain’t what we meant. We want honesty,
But how honest are we
We want somebody real,
While editing what they’re allowed to see.
We want affection even when we know
It might only last till tomorrow.
We’d rather feel something temporary
Than sit for a minute with nothing at all.
Then it goes wrong.
Now who started it
Who finished it
Who crossed the line
Who didn’t listen
Everybody remembers the story
In a way that makes their own side different.
Maybe that’s human.
Maybe that’s the problem.
Or maybe the word “if”
Is where we finally solve it.
[Bridge]
What if I listened
What if you stayed
What if we admitted
The mistakes that we made
What if being right
Was never worth the cost
What if taking responsibility
Doesn’t mean taking it all
What if we stopped saying,
“Look what you did,”
Long enough to ask
“What did I?”
(Ooaawhhaa…)
Yeah…
That one hits different.
[Final Hook]
Don’t wanna take the fault…
If that’s all it takes to make it happen.
Nobody likes looking inward
When the answer might be staring back at us. Don’t wanna take the fault…
If that’s all it takes to make it happen.
Maybe we’re all guilty of something,
Even if we never meant for what happened.
What if it’s me
What if it’s you
What if it’s all of us
Doing what we always do
Don’t wanna take the fault…
If that’s all it takes to make it happen…
[Outro]
But what if…
(What if…)
Nah, really
What if
Style
alternative r&b / soul + hip-hop 78 bpm e minor deep rounded bass atmospheric pads guzheng loop sparse drumsbreathsenglish
Credits
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