Participation Trophies Lyrics

A conflict of interest is reached

I put up with attempts to teach

All the ways I am failing & how I am paling

To safer ways to find my niche

Like how all of my friends who are happy to spend

Time to frame their success on a wall

They somehow have less fear cause they spent 2 more years

While we all wander through the same hall

Fantastic for them, their suffix will prove that was smart

But how can I use participation trophies for art

The true mental slip’s when I lose all that’s been honed

Tension has built; there’s no muse left to postpone

The clock only ticks when I move up the time zone

I’ll make myself known and go it alone

Begs the question: what gives me conceit

To put the system under my feet

This implies I’m above rather than thinking of

Running near with no need to compete

In this lane as I’m inclined, without 2 yellow lines

You speed long enough you stop reading the signs

So I’ll make an exit and take the long way

40 on Coast Highway until the next day

Still plenty of time, I’m barely out of the gate

Give me a year, while I make the best of our free state

The true mental slip’s when I lose all that’s been honed

Tension has built; there’s no muse left to postpone

The clock only ticks when I move up the time zone

I’ll make myself known and go it alone

Tell me how to live like this, tell me how to lift like this

Extra weight’s made up of us, while I’d take all that falls

Show me how to work like this, show me all these perks like this

World is the same as the last time you could make my call

The true mental slip’s when I lose all that’s been honed

Tension has built; there’s no muse left to postpone

The clock only ticks when I move up the time zone

I’ll make myself known and go it alone

Tell me how to live like this, tell me how to lift like this

Extra weight’s made up of us, while I’d take all that falls

Show me how to work like this, show me all these perks like this

World is the same as the last time you could make my call