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Like a Winner

from Ringo by Late-Night Delivery

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That last one I think is the only really autobiographical tune in the set. This one is way more in my wheelhouse of recklessly inventing stuff that somewhat resembles real life.

The speaker in “Winner” is a young woman at a bar who sees her ex across the room. He’s having a conspicuously good time with new friends and doing it all with a demeanor totally unlike the person she used to know. To her, all that bravado feels like betrayal -- not to her necessarily, but instead to the person she knows he is, or maybe who he was and who she thinks he should still be. The guy he is now is like a caricature, and that surreality makes her suspicious (“what are they saying now? / why did you laugh?”). He’s now a stranger, and maybe not a very nice one.

Christian and I originally recorded this one in one of our make-an-EP-in-a-weekend projects, but I always thought of the song as something more ambitious than could be pulled off that fast. Multi-tracking and Eric Delente’s strings I think give this some the grandeur I always hoped it would have.

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I still get butterflies
Before I see you
Just like in eleventh grade

You're looking older now
It suits you well
I think you're hearing songs that time can only tell

You're drinking like a winner
But you're not winning
You seem familiar but I've never seen you drink like a winner

You've got a bunch of friends
I've never met
They're sending dirty looks my way

What are they saying now
Why did you laugh
You're not the winner and this ain't your victory lap

You're drinking like a winner
But you're not winning
You seem familiar but I've never seen you drink like a winner

One two, so nice to meet you
Three four politely beseech you
Five six hardly a minute alone
Seven eight the time that we borrow
Nine ten we pay back tomorrow
Eleven twelve you're someone I hardly know

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from Ringo, released November 4, 2022

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