What is success? A curse or a blessing? Never forget where you came from when you get there...

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This was done for a John Mayer songwriting contest in Esquire magazine... I kind of like it and my daughter enjoys listening to it before bed...

I keep a note that I wrote on a taxi receipt
It says, "Don't listen to anybody other than me"
I hit the big time for a nominal fee
You lose a friend in the end for every dream that you see come true

[Chorus:] I got scars upon scrapes, I've got bruises on breaks
Masochistically committed to see how much of this I'll take
Three years under water, and I ain't even got the shakes
I'm going deeper and deeper and deeper

I've got dreams to remember, I've got days to forget
I've got some phone calls in to God but he ain't call me back just yet
Everybody else takes the time to pay off all my nominal debts
But you can't pay the nominal debts of someone you've just met, just yet

[Chorus]

[Bridge:] As deep as this was ever meant to be
I ain't even notionally, nominally free

I tossed some words I heard into the ether clear
I heard, "Don't miss what you don't have when the price is dear"
I crashed and burned before I ever really felt the fear
You lose a friend in the end for every dream that does not come true

[Chorus 2:] I got scars upon scrapes, I've got bruises on breaks
Masochistically committed to see how much of this I'll take
Three years under water, and I'm just starting to shake
Still I'm going deeper and deeper and deeper