Songtext Other people's failure John Wesley Harding

Other people's failure

Maybe youre insecure
Neck deep in lifes manure
Maybe your hearts impure
Inured to all small compensations
Maybe youre born to lose
Could be caught out or confused
Wearing the condemned mans shoes
Worn out, beyond a warning
There might be one million ills that ail ya
But why do you take pleasure in other peoples failure?

Each day since time began
Youll meet a modest man
Who says he understands
Your plans, your dreams, your schemes, your feelings
But rather you than me
Thats his mentality
Hes a slave to gravity
And he watches laughing as you fall down
He doesnt even have to nail ya
Thats why he takes pleasure in other peoples failure

It is a rule of thumb
Inside the coliseum
That when the time will come
Wed rather see the losers slaughtered
And no-one can resist
This vicarious kiss
It is our greatest bliss
The twist that gives success its flavour
A psychopathic psychedelia....
Thats why we take pleasure in other peoples failure