Try Again

Someone else's success is not your failure

Except when it is

Like, if you're an actor and another actor

Gets the part you auditioned for

Well then

Then it is

But, hey

It's okay

I still love you, actor

So don't hate me when I say

If at first you don't succeed

If life don't give ya what ya need

Just try and try again

If you give it your best shot

And the assholes say it's not

Just try and try again

Just try and try and try and try

And try and try and try

Till the day that you die

The cream always rises to the top

Except when it won't

Like, if you slave away for years at writing

And you find yourself in the same place now

As you were when you started

Then it don't

But yo!

You gotta know

That even though it's so cliché

You must go on with the show

And if at first you don't succeed

And your fingers start to bleed

Just try and try again

If you bare your very soul

And the critics' eyeballs roll

Just try and try again

Just try and try and try and try

And try and try and try

Till the day that you die

If you're standing on a rooftop

And you jump off of the building

'Cause you want it all to end

And you land six feet below

On a fire escape you didn't know was there at all

Then listen, friend

Ignore

My oft-repeated line

Just dust yourself off, honey

And respect that was a sign

'Cause if your suicide goes bust

Then you absolutely must

Not try

Don't try again!

Just use the stairs, walk to the street

See the people, feel the heat

And apply

Yourself again

If at first you don't succeed

If life don't give ya what ya need

Just try and try again

If you throw in your whole heart

And they go recast the part

Just try and try again

If those big shots condescend

Fuck those bastards, find a friend

And try and try and try and try again

And when they cast you out to sea

There's a life boat manned by me

Called Try And Try Again

Just try and try and try and try

And try and try and try

Till the day that we die

And I'll try

Hard as I can to thrive

If you help me survive

As long as we're alive