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Sometimes When You When

from Jazzraptor's Secret by Jack Foster III

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Sometimes When You Win
lyrics by Jack Foster III, music by Foster, Gardner, and Berry
©2008 Muse-Wrapped Publishing

Cut-throat attitude
and an effervescent smile
a winning combination, so they say
so silver-tongued and debonair -- the
center of the world
the power to write the rules
of the games you play

‘cause sometimes when you win
sometimes when you win
sometimes when you win
you lose
sometimes when you win
sometimes when you win
sometimes when you win
you lose

self-satisfaction’s yours
enjoy it while you can
ignore the tear-stained karma if you dare
it don’t matter to you now, I know,
my silly myopic friend
but one day you may wake up
and fi nd you care

‘cause sometimes when you win
sometimes when you win
sometimes when you win
you lose

Winning isn’t everything;
it’s how you play the game
but that platitude’s a picture
that don’t fi t easily in your frame

and sometimes when you win
sometimes when you win
sometimes when you win
you lose

be careful what you wish for
it just might come your way
pay-back’s a bitch
that’s worth its weight in rain
a year’s supply of toothpicks
a country parking space
not every prize is a treasure
worth the pain
a Pyrrhic gain
not worth the pain

Hip Hip Hooray, congratz,
looks like you win again
or at least I’ve run out
of anything else to say
so once again my friend
looks like you get the fi nal word
or maybe I’ve just grown tired
of how you play

‘cause sometimes when you win
sometimes when you win
sometimes when you win
you lose
sometimes when you win
sometimes when you win
sometimes when you win
you lose

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from Jazzraptor's Secret, released January 1, 2009

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