Name: The Trophy
Duration: P00H03M49S
Description: About the potential attitudes and motivations behind the extreme material high achievers and how they are probably not as special as they believe themselves to be. There will surely be another ready to take their place when they show their first sign of weakness.

The Trophy

from Promise of Light by Paul Mallyon

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About the potential attitudes and motivations behind the extreme material high achievers and how they are probably not as special as they believe themselves to be. There will surely be another ready to take their place when they show their first sign of weakness.

lyrics

Your game, your match
Dead smiles and snatch
The sour blood from your suit
Spot the devil In the loop

Drawn in, spat out
Chewed up and threw out
If life’s a game, you will win
You bought the trophy and now you’re in

You’re just another stand in
A shoe in
Who never valued anything

Down here
No one ever smiles at you anymore
Down here
Nothing can be saved or borrowed

Your game, your match
Dead smiles and snatch
The sour blood from your suit
Spot the devil In the loop

Drawn in, spat out
Chewed up and threw out
If life’s a game, you will win
You bought the trophy and now you’re in

Instead of having feelings (Feeling show you're weak)
A stand in
For someone doing better things

Down here
Everyone’s the same as you are
Down here
Nothing can be made from anyone
No accumulation here
No operation fear

Your game, your match
Dead smiles and snatch
The sour blood from your suit
Spot the devil In the loop

Drawn in, spat out
Chewed up and threw out
If life’s a game, you will win
You bought the trophy

Your sour face
Illuminates your lack of grace
You’re now displaced
Looks like it all was a waste
And you failed to find a place
And all for a trophy
And all for the glory
And all for a trophy
And all for the glory
And all for a trophy
And all for the glory

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from Promise of Light, released July 4, 2020
Paul: All instruments, vocals and production.
Mastered by Tim Turan at Turan Audio, Oxford

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