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Losers in a Losing Game

from A Way to Get Back Home by Craig Manning

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7. Losers in a Losing Game

The longest minutes of my life were spent just sitting
By the sign that pointed off toward the stage
While four old men just sat behind that velvet curtain
And spared five minutes to decide my whole damn fate

But while I was staring at the walls I got to thinking
Of walking out the door and on my way
Remove the pretense of this awful situation
It's my life and it's my time now to be brave

To be braver than the songs, to be braver than the words
That they'll speak to me to dismantle my dreams
Cause they're no more than teachers who never taught
No more than singers who never sung
No more than losers in this goddamn losing game

They called my name out in a callous fractured cadence
And I walked the 50 feet to reach their cage
And in a chair designed for students in pursuit of something more
I saw three years of my life vanish away

I could have cried, I could have broken down and begged them
To reconsider, or to spare me from the pain
I could have smashed the Grand Piano off the edge of that damn stage
Left them open-mouthed and fearing for their names

But I'll be braver than the songs, I'll be braver than the words
That they spoke to me to dismantle my dreams
Cause they're no more than teachers who never taught
No more than singers who never sung
No more than losers in this goddamn losing game

But failure it don't have to be the ending
Not of life, or hope, or dreams of better days
And I'm done giving you the power to make me cry or make me rage
Because to me you're just debris, you're something I don't want to be
I'll keep myself and snuff you out in an ashtray

And I'll be braver than the songs, and I'm braver than the words
That you spoke to me to try to change my dreams
'Cause you're no more than teachers who never taught
No more than singers who never sung
No more than losers in this goddamn losing game
I don't wanna be a loser in a game that I can't play

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from A Way to Get Back Home, released April 19, 2016

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