Sandy Stewart - Saddest Victory

Don’t have to fight, doesn’t have to be a war
Don’t have to bother going off to sea
There’s enough of a reason here
To make peace with me

Where is the passion
Well, you don’t feel it yet
How could you now when it plays so hard to get
I’m missing in action, I’m missing the days—
That you can’t wish away.

So you have won, and you have conquered
And you have killed a friend in me
How does it feel . . .
Your saddest victory

The best part of plans can’t hold the line
A heart misled couldn’t stand the test of time
How I tried to stay
The banner waves inside your wall
A hero stands too proud, too tall
You got what you wanted, after all
But you can’t wish away . . .

So you have won, and you have conquered
And you have killed a friend in me
How does it feel . . .
You just won your saddest victory

And so my friend, as you count your lies
Does a man forget what the soul denies
Well, you can try to forget, so you say—
But you won’t wish away the day . . .

So you have won, and you have conquered
And you have lost a friend in me
How does it feel
You just won your saddest victory

I’m laying on the ground,
I’m laying on the ground . . .