Someone else's success is not your failure

Except, when it is

Like if you're an actor and another actor gets the part you auditioned for

Well then? Then it is

But hey, it's okay

I still love you, actor

So don't hate me when I say

If at first you don't succeed

If life don't give you what you need

Just try, and try again

If you give it your best shot

And the assholes say it's not

Just try, and try again

Just try, and try and try and try

And try and try and try

'Till the day that you die

The cream always rises to the top

Except, when it won't

Like if you slave away for years at writing and you find yourself in the same place now that you were when you started

Then, it don't

But yo, you gotta know

That even though it's so cliche

You must go on with the show

And if at first you don't succeed

And your fingers start to bleed

Just try, and try again

And if you bare your very soul

And the critics' eyeballs roll

Just try, and try again

Just try, and try and try and try

And try and try and try

'Till the day that you die

If you're standing on a rooftop

And you jump off of the building

Because you want it all to end

And you land six feet below

Upon a fire escape you didn't know was there at all

Then listen friend

Ignore my oft repeated line

Just dust yourself off, honey

And respect that that was a sign

Because if your suicide goes bust

Then you absolutely must not

Try, don't try again

Use the stairs, walk to the street

See the people, feel the heat

And apply yourself again

If at first you don't succeed

If life don't give you what you need

Just try, and try again

If you throw in your whole heart

And they go recast the part

Just try, and try again

If the big-shots condescend

Fuck those bastards, find a friend

Oh, and try, and try again

When they cast you out to sea

There's a lifeboat manned by me

Called try and try again

So just try, and try and try and try

And try and try and try

'Till the day that we die

And I will try hard as I can to thrive

If you help me survive

As long as we're alive