Still, there Are Winners...

You've got your newborn babies and your wasted cigarettes
and you've got your blank pieces of paper
on which you write about the love that you haven't lost yet.
You've got your Fourth of July picnics and your expensive shoes...
You've got your offensive linemen and your...all of you, all of us...special interest groups
but, there are winners.
Still, there Are winners.



You've got your adoptive mothers and your unnecessary lawsuits
You've got your fatherless children and your creditors who laugh when they call
You've got your idea of what is right and wrong...You've got your own beliefs on how we evolve
You've got your once-a-year Catholics some people they love Jesus but have nothing to repent
You've got your weekly check-earner who through loans of not-real property support
the Great 2%...
But there are winners
Yes, there are winners
Yes, there are.
i can tell you
And there's nothing quite like coming home to
Re-discover the sparkling gold
There are pieces of the puzzle that fit that we don't own

(Look, at us, how far we've grown apart)


You've got your doctor's oath's, your royal oats
Your patriotic demise
You're sworn in once, what, it wears off?
We are peers over whom we preside
I've found some winners, though, man, some winners,
Not just one.
Yes, there are.

You do have your gospel singers, they get off the ground in a hurry
You've got your starving politician, shaking hands in the street
You've got the love in your own heart, a good seed,
Not spoiled with pride.
Not ruined by greed.
You've got the time that you are given
Not a monument, not a moment more or less (someone calls they take you off a list)

I've never met an angel yet
not one who knew exactly How to live.
But, I did meet one that told me, it's not what we take, it's what we give
A winner, that one a winner,
one righteous man.

You've got your politicians whom you pay to prey upon your fear

warning signals
And you've got your social workers who listen with one turned ear
And you've got me right here next to you
as long as our love survives
And you
with your dirty jokes...
Bite your tongue!
Bite your tongue!
Bite your tongue!