Good Enough to Lose

Preface: The songs I put on here are song ideas, not complete works of art. Your comments can ultimately affect the way I treat the song, or it may even help me decide to drop a song from my list altogether. So feel free to tell me the good the bad and the ugly. Thanks and have fun.

I have to be honest, even I don't know what the deal is with my funny facial expressions on this song. Maybe I need new contacts.

I know... another slow, sad song. I am sorry. Let me get it out of my system and then we can move on. The truth is I don't tend to write when I am in a good mood. When I am in a good mood I am outside playing with the kids, or riding my unicycle, or watching a funny show. But late at night when the world is asleep and my mind is tired, I let my guard down. It gives the internal sadness (that we all face) the ability to rush in and overwhelm me. My only defense at the point is musical therapy. I put it in a song. It never goes away, but now it has a place to exist outside of me. And I can learn from it, grow with it.

"Good Enough to Lose"

So you wake up,
Like there's a reason to.
You ain't got your shoes on yet,
And your hair's all wet,
But still you find the proof

That today you may die.
You make that possibility known.
So with your next step,
Each and every breath
Feels more and more
Like your own.

You gave me the world,
But what did I give you?
A life full of memories
Too cold and empty,
To blank to ever put to use.

You gave me the world,
But how was I to choose?
'Cause I was never giving anything
That was ever good enough to lose.

So you shake off
The bad mood that I turned on
'Cause you know that life's too short
To put so much work
In finding out who is wrong.

You live for the day,
As I slowly die.
And it's this difference
That truly sets the distance
Between who you are and who am I.

You gave me the world,
But what did I give you?
A life full of memories
Too cold and empty,
To blank to ever put to use.

You gave me the world,
But how was I to choose?
'Cause I was never giving anything
That was ever good enough...

You've got me so twisted inside.
You've got me so I cannot hide
From what I've become,
From what I've undone.

You gave me the world,
But how was I to choose?
'Cause I was never giving anything
That was ever good enough to lose.

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