New Pornographers Ballad Of A Comeback Kid Lyrics

Ballad Of A Comeback Kid Lyrics

Pray for content, settle for free rent, the tenements recall Rome 

High
five, look up, look alive, 

as the scions of history guess another
mystery 

wrong (x3)

Recite your lines, and I'll quote scriptures


Everything, was fine until membership lost its privileges 

Everyone in town, wanted to be around you 

this went on for awhile
until they finally found you

 

Ever so careful, on the strip we
cruise, crippled in someone else's shoes 

Who knew? Mind you, I never had
to stand, in line you did, for the ballad of a comeback kid 



Watch
your step as you step down from the podium, returned from the war to a hero's
welcome, what's more you just had to win 

Blazing new trails, waving
goodbye to the audience, held captive, the crowd was inactive, it made such
perfect sense 



Ever so careful on the strip we cruise, crippled in
someone else's shoes 

Who knew? Mind you, I never had to stand in line,
you did 



But you won't, Kelly says she could've (x2) 



Like a bat out of hell, time has come for you(x3)



Ever so
careful on the strip we cruise, crippled in someone else's shoes 

Who
knew? Mind you, I never had to stand in line, you did 



Ever so
careful, on the strip we cruise, crippled in someone else's shoes 

Who
knew? Mind you, I never had to stand, in line you did, for the ballad of a
comeback kid