AFTER YOU LOSE
Marc Alan Barnette and Ande Rasmussen
Last game of the season
As our team went down in flames
The clocked ticked off the seconds
Watched our playoff dreams all fade
There were grown men crying on the grass
Players, students, Mom’s and Dad’s
Coach Swinson called us to the side
Said hold your head up tonight
Chorus
Cause you can stay down on the ground
Go home and lay in bed
Make a fist and curse God’s name
Or get back up instead
Be bitter or a quitter, let it get to you
But you have to live with how you choose
After you lose
Ten years at my first job
Never missed a day of work
Today that pink slip in my mailbox
Made me want to make that foreman hurt
But before I headed for the office
With hatred in my soul
I thought back to that ice cold night
All those years ago
Bridge
They’re more down’s than ups in this planet we call home
Sometimes you take more hits than you can stand
But it’s the way that you come out on the other side
That’s the true measure of a man