The Champ

(album: Let's Talk About Leftovers - 2000)

Tommy can they hear you?
You're the poster child
Give them all a fading smile
Entertain the notion
You can't go outside
Failure is around the corner

And you want to talk it over
None of it's enough
Everyone's too much

You're sounding out the dollars
Anyone can smile
Anyone

Seven empty futures
Twenty-four goodbyes
Empty backstage full of people
And it's all bullshit
Your words seem to say nothing (nothing)

Try to recall ambition that brought you here
Remember when (remember when, remember when)
Where has it gone

You wanted to roll the dice
Anyone can choose
Anyone can lose

Sounding
Standing in the overwhelming
Anyone can act
Anyone (anyone)

Those nameless faces leave you estranged
The city changes
They stay the same
Everyone is waiting for the day you fail

Tommy can they hear you?