Every day I work so hardBringin' home my hard earned payTry to love you baby, but you push me away.

Every day I work so hardBringin' home my hard earned payTry to love you baby, but you push me away.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss
But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.

Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss
But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.

That puts it not unto the touch
To win or lose it all.

That puts it not unto the touch
To win or lose it all.

What's saved affords
No indication of what's lost.

What's saved affords
No indication of what's lost.

Now those memories come back to haunt meThey haunt me like a curse

Now those memories come back to haunt meThey haunt me like a curse

Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.

Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.

Losers must have leave to speak.

Losers must have leave to speak.

The cheerful loser is the winner.

The cheerful loser is the winner.