If I Knew Then What I Know Now (Duet With Gladys Knight)

Well, hello, girl

Tell me, how have you been?

By the way

I never made 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 a way

To make things work out somehow

I'd have held you tight (I'd have held you tight)

I'd have treated you right (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 (So easy then)

Just to push you away (You pushed me away)

Guess I never knew

How I'd feel today, oh

If we knew then what we know now

We'd have found a way

To make things work out somehow

I'd have held you tight (I'd have held you tighter)

I'd have treated you righter (I'd have treated you righter)

If I knew then (Ooh, if I knew then)

What I know now

You know I did things differently (Oh, baby)

If you ever come back to me

If we could just go back in time

There's no broken hearts

Girl, we're at the start this time (This time, oh)

If we knew then (If we knew then)

What I know now (Oh, what we know now)

We'd have found a way

To make things work out somehow (Oh)

I'd have held you tighter (I'd have held you tighter)

I'd have treated you righter (Ooh, I'd have treated you righter)

If we knew then (Oh, if we knew then)

What we know now

If I knew then (If I knew then)

What I know now

We should try it once again