No Victor

Maddy Clark - Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
Larry Rice - Bass, Acoustic Guitar
Danny Keane - Electric Guitars
Andrew Clark - Keyboards, Drum Programming

Produced and engineered by Andrew Clark
Mastered by Mike Monseur

Your honesty is written in your eyes
I know you well enough that you offer no surprises
Fight the smokescreen talk in riddles
Shielding our eyes from truths of permanence as fickle

Our clothes don’t fit
‘Cause we aren’t kids
And everything that’s comfortable is crooked

 I’ll be unsteady
Without you by my side
 Placing the rest of me
 In the healing hands of time
 No champions, no dignity, no winner
 Love declares no victor

Words amiss I read your face
Mosaic lovers in a basement fall from grace
And all we built can’t hold our weight
Too old to play the fool, pretending nothing's changed

I’m a jail bird
Without my wings
Prison-bound by a fading fantasy

            Learning slowly
            That love ain’t as clean as it seems
            ‘Cause some go wounded in the dark
            And survive by the skin of their teeth
            No champions, no dignity, no winner
            Love declares no victor

And in the morning
Monday comes
No surprise that she’s right on time
‘Cause calendar days
Pardon no broken hearts
Though you can’t walk you still must rise

            I’ll be unsteady
            Without you by my side
            Placing the rest of me
            In the healing hands of time
            And Learning slowly
            That love ain’t as clean as it seems
            ‘Cause some go wounded in the dark
            And survive by the skin of their teeth

            No champions, no dignity, no winner
            Love declares no victor