Ballad of a Comeback Kid

Pray for content

Settle for free rent

The tenements recall Rome

High five

Look up, look alive

As the scions of history

Guess another mystery

Wrong.

Recite your lines

And I'll quote scriptures

Everything was fine

Until membership lost its privileges

Everyone in town

Wanted to be around you

This went on for awhile

Until they finally found you

Ever so careful

On the strip

We cruise

Crippled in

Someone else's shoes

Who knew?

Mind you

I never had to stand in line

You did...

For the ballad of a comeback kid

Watch your step

As you step down

From the podium

Returned from the war

To a hero's welcome

What's more

You just had to win

Blazing new trails

Waving goodbye

To the audience

Held captive

The crowd was inactive

It made such perfect sense

But you won't

Kelly says she could have

Like a bat out of hell

Time has come for you