Ember Swift Competing? You Choose Lyrics

Competing? You Choose Lyrics


												
														   Competing is what we do

Whether it's for first chair in
the orchestra pit or for academic scholarships,

we compete 

we
compete over who has the fastest car, the whitest teeth, 

the biggest
feed lot farm, the most nuclear arms, 

the skiniest waist, the most
beautiful face

we compete until somebody wins, we compete until
someone

is beaten down

we compete for higher ground.



So we beat each other over and over

and our children learn each day as
they grow older 

that in order to be successful you must step into the
ring,

tap gloves and fight to the finish

compete, beat, endure and
diminish

others



Whether it's for an oil pipe line or a
stuffed animal at the fair,

put this mentality into a country of
people

and we will blow up our neighbours in justified warfare.



What have we won when all is said and done? 

A piece of land through
the barrel of a gun?

What have we won when we're considered
"celebrities?"

A little gold star that all the crowds will see

as
it glitters on the sidewalk in the afternoon sun?

Or, better yet, that
same gold star pinned on your son's military uniform's lapel?

or an
official paper framed and hung on your office wall? 

for all to see, all
to tell 

who is the tallest, strongest, toughest, most successful of
all...



And as we win, what do we lose?

As we beat others
down, do you really think we rise?

As we infect our thinking with this
need to win and compete

When we feed this disease, who dies?

As we
win, what do we lose?

As we win, what do we lose?

You choose.