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Losing Game

from Dog Days by Robert T. Schmidt

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Everything is vanity. So says Solomon, King of Israel, supposedly one of the wisest men to live on this planet. My old friend Mark Finger, who is kind of a smart feller himself, is probably responsible for this song. He used to teach a class about the book of Ecclesiastes (that's in the Old Testament of the Bible), which I really enjoyed. Purported to have been written by Solomon, it's all about the meaninglessness of life and the reality and imminence of one's own death. Bummer, right?
I don't think so. There's something freeing about acknowledging and making peace with one's own mortality. I like how Jon Foreman of Switchfoot puts it - "I'm not sentimental, this skin and bones is a rental, and no one makes it out alive".
Eat, drink, and toil away - and keep dreaming of a better day. Anyways, I hope you enjoy the song!

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Losing Game

The grinders fall out and the windows close
This body get tired and old before you know it
It’s over-rated it’s a bunch of bullshit
But we hold out hope for one more day before it’s time to go

I see the mark of vanity in every thought and every scheme
We never get too tired of chasing the wind
We eat and drink and we toil away and keep dreaming of a better day
It’s a losing game

Finally found someone who let me rest
She’s the hand in my glove her love’s a helluva blessing
Winter’s gone so we’ll head west and then
Seven nights of paradise and it’s back to work again

I feel the hand of vanity in every thought and every scheme
We never get too tired of chasing the wind
We eat and drink and we toil away and keep dreaming of a better day
It’s a losing game

You say that life is pain and we live and die in vain
Then you say each day is a gift – they all fly by so swiftly

Your finest hour has come and gone
Dreams have left you in the dust the world is moving on
Feeling strange for the times they are a-changing
In a couple generations they’ll just forget your name

I see the mark of vanity in every thought and every scheme
We never get too tired of chasing the wind
We eat and drink and we toil away and keep dreaming of a better day

It’s a losing game

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from Dog Days, released August 16, 2020
Black Husky Band is Carolyn Williams, Chuck Meyer, and Robert Schmidt.
Words and music by Robert T. Schmidt

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