It Hurts Both Ways

It’s bad to stay

It’s bad to go

But am I bad?

I’ll never know

I didn’t know

It hurts both ways

It’s up and down

It stays the same

You quit years ago

And I still play the game

And win or lose

It hurts both ways

One of us talks

One of us cries

One of us walks

One of us lies

And wrong or right

It hurts both ways

You crawl up walls

Drive down one-way streets

Look forward to

All your defeats

Because at least

When you have lost

The cost is worth

It being done

And then it’s fun

And then it’s late

And then it’s dumb

And then you wait

No matter what

It hurts both ways

And in a way

It helps to know

It hurts

Both

Ways