“What If” is one of the tracks from Cesca’s debut EP “Travel” released under ABS-CBN’s Star Pop record label. The EP contains heartfelt and acoustic tracks based on her personal experiences, including a destructive relationship that inspired the song “What If.”
“It was so hard for me to let this so...
[Verse 1]
How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we didn't become?
Hanggang dito na lang ba natin 'to iiwan?
Nothing ever stays the same, people aren't what they seem
'Di kinayang harapin ang ginawa, itinaya na lang sa bituin
[Chorus]
What if we kept all our promises then?
Would we be lovers or would we be friends?
Would we mind if we stayed or went separate ways?
Would we have said what we wanted to say?
What if we said we would see through the end?
Would we be happy or would it still еnd in the way that it did?
I wonder if in another lifе we would be better than this
[Verse 2]
Pa'no natin papatawarin ang mahahapdi na sinabi?
When you said you loved me, I said I'm sorry
'Di na tama'ng pag-ibig natin
Feelings are fragile, we walk on glass
'Pag nasaktan bawal umatras
Oh, sabi ko na nga ba, 'di na natin kaya
[Chorus]
Pa'no kaya kung nagkatotoo
Lahat ng pinagarap nating maabot?
No'ng tayo'y bata pa't wala pang alam
At naniwala sa walang hangganan
Pa'no kaya kung naagapan
Lahat ng sinabing hindi sinadya?
Pareho lang tayo nasaktan
Pareho lang tayo nang-iwan
[Bridge]
All of the scenes, I think of in my head
Are all the things that we could have been
January lovers laid in the grass
Friends in the pavement who laugh at the past
Strangers who meet on Christmas Eve
Partners in crime who go out for drinks
All of the scenes are all of the things
We could have had if we didn't have to leave
[Chorus]
What if we kept all our promises then?
Would we be lovers or would we be friends?
Would we mind if we stayed or went separate ways?
Would we have said what we wanted to say?
[Outro]
Pa'no kung nagawang sabihin na tayo'y lalaban hanggang sa pumuti ang buhok
Tayo ba'y masaya o nagtaka?
Kung sa ibang buhay, 'di tayo nagkagan'to
What If was written by Cesca.
What If was produced by Rox Santos.