Video Tape - Steve Goodman

If your life was on video tape

Wouldn’t everything be all right

When your head hurts the morning after

Then you could roll it back to late last night

You could replay all the good parts

And cut out what you don’t like

Oh wouldn’t you be in good shape

If your life was on video tape

If everybody had ESP

Everything would be OK

We could see trouble coming

And we could step out of the way

When that grim reaper comes to call

Then we could arrange to be out of town

It would be the great escape

And you could put it on video tape

I don’t have a video recorder

I don’t have a crystal ball

And when I’m not with my baby

Oh, then I don’t have very much at all

I can’t predict the future

And baby I sure can’t change the past

But I know it will all make sense

If you love me in the present tense

If your life was on video tape

Wouldn’t everything be all right

When your head hurts the morning after

You could always roll it back to late last night

You could replay all the good parts

And cut out what you don’t like

Oh wouldn’t you be in good shape

If your life was on video tape

Oh wouldn’t you be in good shape

If your life was on video tape