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It's Not How Good You Are

from One Man Argument by Seth Timbs

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It’s Not How Good You Are


They don’t give medals for self-inflicted wounds
If they did, you’d have a chestful.
You’d be welcomed home with a ticker tape parade
By the others who had it all and threw it away.

You can’t fake hurt, you can’t fake pain
and now you wont have to.
As your legs get kicked out from under you.
And you grab at the ghosts that you think will save you.

(1st chorus)
just like children dream of impossible things
like something they saw on a TV screen
it don’t matter what you were taught to believe
it’s not how good you are, it’s how good you seem to be.

They don’t judge talent in this talent show
They just push you out and see how far you can go.
You can give your body, your soul your heart and your dreams
And they’ll melt them down and us them to grease their machine

(2nd Chorus)
like a child might dream of impossible things.
A hero dies and then rises again.
It don’t matter what you were taught to believe
It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you seem to be.

I saw you at the foot of the stage.
You were torn all to pieces, you had been rearranged.
And you looked like a man with a lot to explain.
And you looked like a kid who had grown up too late.

(3rd chorus)
like a child believes his impossible dream
and wishes it over and over again.
It don’t matter what you were taught to believe
It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you seem to be.

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from One Man Argument, track released October 1, 2011
Seth Timbs - all instruments, voices, and production
written by Seth Timbs

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It is fortunate for musicians like Seth Timbs, that a life free of any real tragedy, drug addiction or disability does not preclude him from writing songs that are worth listening to. At the end of the day, no matter what the back story is, everybody wants to know “so, is he any good?” that’s what we’re here to find out. ... more

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