Innit To Win Lyrics – Jesse Welles

Read the full Innit To Win lyrics by Jesse Welles along with the music video, song credits, release information and other details about the song. If you enjoy Jesse Welles’s music, you can also explore Wild Horses and Assassination Attempt, two other songs by Jesse Welles.

Folks that told us
Never showed us
Plans without practice
Words without action
Lies and infractions

I’ve been more than passive
Totally unreactive
Subdued and acting
Doin math, subtracting

I’m back again

I’m playin the game
I’m doin the work
Ain’t it a shame
I’m playing the game again

I got enough heart
To come apart
And still have a little heart to lend
I’m in it to win
I’m gonna make it count
I’m in it to win
And I don’t know what winnings about

But if it’s anything like
On the second strike
Hitting a homerun
Bases loaded
And the whole team hollering out
“Hey boy”
That’s what winning’s about
I’m gonna make it count

I know a man who lives in fear
Fear up to his ears
And in so much pain

Pain up to his brain

And it terrifies me
Completely and profoundly
Ya know the ocean’s deep
For a two-armed sheep
Just tryna sleep more soundly

I’m back again
I’m playin the game
I’m doing the work
Ain’t it a shame
I’m playin the game again

I got enough heart
To come apart
And still have a little heart to lend
I’m in it to win
I’m gonna make it count
I’m in it to win
And I don’t know what winning’s about

But if it’s anything lin
etting in the mic
Singing all the favorite songs that you like
Thinking about the girl who loves ya
Makes ya wonder bout things above you
I’m gonna make it count

I’ve been to cemeteries
You know, where everyone’s buried
Not a single one of them, my friend
Took a thing in that they carried

Folks talk about being driven
I’m on the deep end swimming
Hell I’ll take a ribbon
Tryna take less than I’m given

I’m back again
I’m playin the game
I’m doin the work
Ain’t it a shame
I’m playin the game again

I got enough heart
To come apart
And still have a little heart to lend
I’m in it to win
I’m gonna make it count
I’m in it to win
And I don’t know what winning’s about

But if it’s anything near
Seeing things clear
Having a hella lot less to fear
Singing out loud
Whenever you’re keen to
Taking deep breaths
When ya don’t even mean to
I’m in it to win