Comeback Kid

Feels so strange, kicking around the town of my youth
 I was never gonna stay, always hated in truth
 The faces in the street, how they hid behind
 Barroom smiles and the empty eyes
 Since then I ain't found much to hold on to
 Couple drink tickets, smoke-filled room
 Doing the best with the circumstance
 And telling myself that with
 One more chance, I could do things better
 But I just can't get my shit together long enough
 To keep from running round like a ragged dog
 They cast their doubts, I can still remember
 Gonna shout them down, man it's now or never more to make
 The same mistakes that I did back then
 Playin' the part of the comeback kid
 Rearrange the words on the page just one more time
 Carving out a reason to fit the rhyme
 Hoping they might show you the shape I'm in
 Tired and torn but then again
 Here I am in the crowd of the backstage door
 Pushing my way for an open floor
 When a shadowed hand called me to the side
 Says he's got a little something that
 I should try, to put my mind at ease
 Just a little stem is all you need, to take the edge off boy
 Now the walls around me they're starting to breathe
 Dig in my heels and ready my aim
 Bet my life on every last refrain, not sure if I
 Could ever survive another hit
 Too far gone for a comeback kid
 My chest it pounds like a distant drum
 Give into the heat that fills your lungs, and try to maintain
 Though you're feeling so unsteady, so unsure
 Reach down deep, can you feel the fire
 To sing another song for the uninspired part of us all
 That'll drag you down if you let it win
 One more shot for the comeback kid
 One more shot for the comeback kid
 One more shot for the comeback kid
 One more shot for the comeback kid
 One more shot for the comeback kid
 One more shot for the comeback kid