i know i have always been the short one
too little to find out what was going on
late and just barely getting it together
i've always been the first to try
and the first to fail
i guess it always goes like that
when you watch others watch you
showing up late for this life has never served me well
i'm the best part of a butt of a joke to my family
on what not to do with your life
i've been revered as the one that almost didn't
and if it takes me this long just to get it together
then maybe it's time to call it quits
maybe i can't show anyone anything
except how to apologize with grace
except to fall face down in trying
so what they say may not be true
that it matters how much you try
when your efforts are misguided
it really doesn't matter how hard you're trying.
