It's Not How Good You Are Lyrics

It's Not How Good You Are

They don't give medals for self-inflicted wounds

If they did, you'd have a chestful.

You'd be welcomed home with a ticker tape parade

By the others who had it all and threw it away.

You can't fake hurt, you can't fake pain

And now you wont have to.

As your legs get kicked out from under you.

And you grab at the ghosts that you think will save you.

Just like children dream of impossible things

Like something they saw on a TV screen

It don't matter what you were taught to believe

It's not how good you are, it's how good you seem to be.

They don't judge talent in this talent show

They just push you out and see how far you can go.

You can give your body, your soul your heart and your dreams

And they'll melt them down and us them to grease their machine

Like a child might dream of impossible things.

A hero dies and then rises again.

It don't matter what you were taught to believe

It's not how good you are, it's how good you seem to be.

I saw you at the foot of the stage.

You were torn all to pieces, you had been rearranged.

And you looked like a man with a lot to explain.

And you looked like a kid who had grown up too late.

Like a child believes his impossible dream

And wishes it over and over again.

It don't matter what you were taught to believe

It's not how good you are, it's how good you seem to be.