We only get one chance at this And there's about a thousand ways that it can all go wrong It seems random but I promise that the plan exist Its just hard to recognize until its almost gone And then its gone and you're never getting anymore And all thats left is guessing what you'll be remembered for What that you can rest for sure We put our best foot forward from the second that they press record And I never said that we don't cope with demons Cause if you've never question your belief, you don't believe them If this wasn't how its supposed to go while all the feelings But a wisely chosen spoken word is potent healing We hit the stage and behave in accordance Cause the labour of love won't always pay for our mortgage Everybody wants to make a name and a fortune What a shame fame ain't the same as importance And this is not encouragment Because the only thing certain is work in the dirt and quit You need to learn this It might never be perfect, but it hurts worse to quit If everybody wins, then everybody loses No one leaves the field without getting bloody bruises You play through the storm if the uniform fits There's a time to call it quits, this is no it This is not a fair fight where the odds can be even There will always be a reason as long as we keep breathing It never hurts worse than the very first hit There's a time to call it quits, this is no it Every now and then Think of two thousand and ten January twelve, when the earth cried for help Tectonic plate shifted, sevent point o The earthquake from Elo Haiti was ground zero Three hundreds and sixteen thousand dead people This sort of events commence in fort the prince Here you have a country the size of Netherland That somehow slipped through the wings of a seraphin If New Orleans missfortune get all attentions of Americains Third world problems pale in comparison Abject poverty right and food crisis A natural disaster that terminate leaf of likeness As poor black bodies were being removed from rubble I was distracted, me and my girl were having trouble There's a fine line between fairness and justice The precarious amongst us for the barriers to confort But the carrier that was once hurt, brandishing scars Part of being an adult is managing what's hard The broken glass shards from windows of opportunity Usually, humble our success with credulity And thruthfully, if you have never been sacked You wouldn't know how to act, running the victory lap And so with dignity and tact I freed myself of the tarmac Brush off my jers against ball cap Cause whole that remains is the, try and gain and let loose Cause in the face of that earthquake, whats my excuse If everybody wins, then everybody loses No one leaves the field without getting bloody bruises You play through the storm if the uniform fits There's a time to call it quits, this is no it This is not a fair fight where the odds can be even There will always be a reason as long as we keep breathing It never hurts worse than the very first hit There's a time to call it quits, this is no it This light afflictions whatch only for a moment Are working for an eternity, so own it The chief key component, to picking yourself up the lennel iyum If you don't like, never stand a foot on the winners podium We lost more than we want It cost more than we make We walk more than we run We fought more than we played We searched more than we seek We work more than we sleep We earn more than we keep We learn more than we speak We turn the other cheek cause the earth is for the meeks And with each word of our speech we are furthering our reach We hurl took a ticks and we think its for the best Because we earn those tweeks and we agree more less An ordered mess, yes, the calm and the chaos And the longer we wait, the stronger the payout This song is a séance and we sing it together But one who die trying live forever If everybody wins, then everybody loses No one leaves the field without getting bloody bruises You play through the storm if the uniform fits There's a time to call it quits, this is no it This is not a fair fight where the odds can be even There will always be a reason as long as we keep breathing It never hurts worse than the very first hit There's a time to call it quits, this is no it