Lyrics

Sorry, Not a Winner
© 2015 Music, Paul R Anderson; Lyrics, Paul R Anderson, Michael Jackman; Recording © ℗ 2016 Also Paul Publishing

All my life I heard the myth that winners never lose
I guess it really just depends who gets to pick and choose
I did my time, I gave my all like everybody did
But how it turned out most the time is losers never win

Let us speak up for the losers lost in their circumstance
Left standing like a wallflower and never asked to dance
We’re all people of a second chance -- we deserve another day
‘Stead of sitting on the sidelines and the coach don’t know our name

So you say I’m not a winner.
I’ve heard that song before,
“Sorry, not a winner” has no meaning anymore
If you believe you are a winner,
Then there’s no one keeping score
It doesn’t matter if you win or lose
What they say is one opinion, nothing more

Just an average workday while gassing up my truck
I bought myself a scratch-off; try to steal some Irish luck
If just this once I hit it big, Lord knows I’d make it right!
And why not dream a richer man is more attractive to my wife.

People say I’m not a winner.
It’s easy to ignore.
Sorry, not a winner
I just don’t need to hear it anymore

I’m a simple man simply trying to stand and get there on my own
To raise my kids and live my life the way that I was shown
I don’t need you telling me to change my luck from bad to good
Just raise a glass for what I learned -- to win by being grateful, if I could

If you say I’m not a winner
Careful what you’re wishing for
“Sorry, not a winner” won’t impress me anymore
When you know you are a winner,
Then there’s no one keeping score
It doesn’t matter how you play the game
The object isn’t winning…

So you say you’re now a winner
And you’ve opened up the door
No more reason left to win or lose
The winning is in living, nothing more.