If I Had My Time Again

Andy Karl and Barrett Doss as Phil and Rita singing about having their time again, in the Broadway production.

## Chronology

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"Everything About You" (reprise)

"**If I Had My Time Again**" is the fourth song of Act Two of *Groundhog Day*.

In the song, Rita sings of what she wishes she could do if she had a second chance, whereas Phil ironically reminisces on how he's done everything imaginable after reliving the same day over and over.

## Lyrics

**[RITA HANSON]**

Sometimes, it's like I'm stumbling forward

Hustled forward

Jostled from behind by time

Sometimes, it's like I'm being dragged

Yet always lagging

Trying to keep in time with time

But if I could stop the clock for just one day

If I could freeze a moment for a moment

Rest before the measure's over

Hold the beat for just one day

If I could wind it back and start afresh

Just a day to catch my breath

To make mistakes and set them right

Delay the coming of the night

If I had my time again

I would do it all the same

They say, but that's insane

Wouldn't you want to make a couple of changes?

Regrets, I'd not even have a few

If I could do this thing that you

Say you can do

I've always dreamt of learning how to dance

**[PHIL CONNORS]**

Some days I go out without pants

**[RITA]**

It's so exciting

**[PHIL]**

I slept with ninety

**[RITA]**

A new beginning

**[PHIL]**

Percent of women

**[RITA]**

Every morning

**[PHIL]**

In Punxsutawney

**[RITA]**

To have the time to strive for more

**[PHIL]**

Between eighteen and eighty-four

And one dude when I was bored

**[RITA]**

If I had my time again

I'd take the path less trodden

Avoid the crap I trod in

Read a lot of books

**[PHIL]**

I've stolen eighteen million bucks

**[RITA]**

And I would worry less about my looks

**[PHIL]**

And I guess I'll do it again

**[RITA]**

And I would be a lot more zen

**[PHIL]**

When

**[RITA]**

And I would punch

**[PHIL]**

I

**[RITA]**

A lot of men

**[PHIL]**

Had

**[RITA]**

If I had

**[RITA & PHIL]**

My time again

**[RITA]**

If I had my time again

I would do it all the same

They claim, that that's ridiculous

Surely you'd want to make a couple of fixes?

All those boxes left unchecked

All the dreams you left neglected

You'd go back and put it right

I've always fancied learning how to climb

**[PHIL]**

I once masturbated seven times

**[RITA]**

I'd study math

**[PHIL]**

In the bath

**[RITA]**

And search for meaning

**[PHIL]**

In one evening

**[RITA]**

And I'd run up hills

**[PHIL]**

It wasn't fun, but still

**[RITA]**

I'd learn to paint

**[PHIL]**

A man my age

**[RITA]**
Just to know
**[PHIL]**
It's nice to know

**[RITA & PHIL]**
I can

**[PHIL]**

It's nice to know I can

**[RITA]**

If I had my time again

I'd sample all the samples

Look at things from different angles

I would not do it all the same

If I had my time again

**[RITA & ENSEMBLE]**

If I had my time again

**[RITA]**

The things I'd handle better

I would send my unsent letters

**[PHIL]**

I've started seven hundred fights

**[RITA]**

If I had my time back

**[PHIL]**

And if you knew the endless nights

That I have wasted getting wasted

Contemplating different ways to suicide

**[RITA]**

I would write and I would write

**[PHIL]**

And I have tried every food and every drink and every cheat

**[RITA]**
And I would bring joy to other people's lives
And I would learn piano
And I would make a lot of friends
If I had my time
**[PHIL]**
And every choice a thousand times
And I daily eat about a dozen donuts and I don't know why
And I don't know... why

**[RITA & COMPANY]**

If I had my time again

**[RITA]**
I'd open all the doors I've never looked behind
And oh
The things I'd taste, the things I'd try

And the misery I could prevent

And I will make a lot of friends
If I had my time
Again
**[PHIL]**
I've opened all the doors I'd never looked behind before
And I
I find the thing with these revolving rides

They're only fun cause you know they're going to end

Again, I have had it, I have had my time again