Ballad of a Comeback Kid

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 

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 a while 
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

But you won't
Kelly says she could have
Like a bat out of hell
Time has come for you