Ballad Of A Comeback Kid Lyrics - Electric Version - New Pornographers

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, wrong, wrong 

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 have 

But you won't, Kelly says, she could have 

Like a bat out of hell, time has come for 

Like a bat out of hell, time has come for 

Like a bat out of hell, time has come for 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 

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