You're down, struck out
They took your crown
But I never liked that shadow weighing on your brow
You came, you saw
Then you fell hard
Well, the conquerors can crow on till the Ides of March

Lay low, lay low
Yes, you're a poor second but you're a good friend
Lay low, lay low with me
Lay low, lay low
Yes, if you're sure nothing is what you do best, we can just be good to each other and no good to anyone else

Fortunes fall and rise
Some take the skies
cnd we look so little in their eagle eyes
But us flightless birds
We'll keep the Earth
How dare they preach to us of honest work

Lay low, lay low
Yes, you're a poor second but you're a good friend
Lay low, lay low with me
Lay low, lay low
Yes, if you're sure nothing is what you do best, we can just be good to each other and no good to anyone else

Low tide and the low light's playing on the water
I don't mind growing old like this
Cold nights I will hold your idle hands in mine and
Finally we'll learn what love is

Lay low, lay low
Yes, you're a poor second but you're a good friend
Lay low, lay low, lay low
(Mmm, if you're sure nothing is what you do best you can just)
Lay low
We can just be good to each other
(No good to anyone else)

Lay low, lay low
Yes, you're a poor second but you're a good friend (a good friend)
Lay low, lay low with me
(No good to anyone else)
Lay low, lay low
Yes, if you're sure nothing is what you do best, we can just be good to each other and no good to anyone else