Beautiful Failures
BEAUTIFUL FAILURES
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When your love burned so brightly
Like a phoenix at sunrise
I was trying too hard
Just to live through your white lies
When you told me how you feel
In a room full of small talk
I was damned by their small words:
“He’s such a beautiful failure”
How – they – love to scrutinise
Me – they love to criticise
My – songs on their radio shows
Played twenty-four seven
Songs for beautiful failures
They don’t know a thing about me!
They don’t know a thing about you!
When your love grew so cold now
My heart shattered like thin glass
See I’m crying right now
Not because of your tear gas
When you told me how you feel
It was like ice on my wind-shield
Where you scratched out these cruel words:
“You’re such a beautiful failure”
How – you – love to sermonize
Me – you love to sanitise
My – songs on your radio show
Played twenty-four seven
Songs for beautiful failures
You don’t know a thing about me!
I know everything about you!
When my face grew so old now
And my heart is so jaded
I was calling your name
Though the memory has faded
When you told me how you feel
When you rained on my parade
Where your banners bear harsh words;
“You’re such a beautiful failure”
How – I – love to demonise
You – I’d like to memorise
My songs on your radio show
Played twenty-four seven
Songs for beautiful failures
They know everything about me!
They know everything about you!
When your love burned so brightly
We’re all beautiful failures
We were trying too hard
We’re such beautiful failures
When you told me how you feel
We’re all beautiful failures
When they damned us with faint praise:
We’re such beautiful failures.
(c) 2018 all lyrics, music, voices and instruments by Paul D E Mitchell
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