There's One Thing That Beats Failing

(album: Lookin' For A Love Again - 1974)

Oh, yes sir
Oh, baby yeah

You know, I remember the first time leaving home
I wasn't gone for a week but that was much, much too long
And I recall calling my mother on the telephone
Before I could say anything
Mama already knew what was wrong and she said:

"There's one thing that'll beat failing
Oh, that's trying," she said
"And if anybody tells you different
They gotta be lyin'"

Just everyday problems
Find a way of bringing you down
But if you want it bad enough
Find a way of turning it around
You find a way of turning it around
Yeah, oh-yeah
Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah

There's one thing that'll beat failing
And that's trying
And don't let, don't let the system catch you
Catch you crying

When the pressure builds so high
You gotta somehow break away
But life is all about give and take
Not about running away

You can run, you can't hide
Just where I don't know, you can't hide
Oh baby, oh yeah

Oh, yeah

If anybody ask you, tell 'em I said

There's one thing that'll beat failing
That's trying
If anybody tells you different
They gotta be lying

There's one thing
There's one thing that'll beat failing
It's trying