When the tears came down he blushed upon his timid knees the flowers silent on the wall he couldn't look them in the eye the sharks were barely waiting he'd take a bullet in the back before he'd fall he handled like a dream the sky was slightly laughing at the irony of it all the moment it arrived had shredded him to tears stripped down to two feet tall hold it high they say almost every day if you were thrown to the wall would you rise or would you fall and would you ride the tide of fortune like a debutainted doll if your legend don't sing if you lost your everything would your heart bleed down to pieces or bring life to your broken wing you're slowly losing ground the word's all over town you dropped the ball they say you couldn't look them in the eye the sharks were barely waiting you'd take a bullet down before you'd run the other way it's do or die they say almost everyday