CANDLEPIN STAR

Got into the game
And rolling that ball
130 average on the lane
25 years old
Married the past year
Those honeymoon days and nights
Feeling strong, happy and tall
New house in the boonies
And a good paying job
A rolloff winner
Made it to the TV show
Don Gillis and crew
Helped him relax and feel at home
Because he was new
Took a few rolls
But not too much
To calm the nerves
And get into the flow
400 series to win the match
And make the championship show

His friends cheer him on
A whole lot of fun
Oh he's ,he’s got it going
He's got it going on
On a winning run
He's gone very far
To defeat all those other guys
To get to this place
He's got stars in his eyes
It’s the New England top rated game
Channel 5
A Candlepin star
A television face

The years pass
Still bowls the game
A few other times
Made it to TV again
But something's gone wrong
Problems of life and time
As the years go by
Marriage gone bad
Thrown him into a dive
Cause he really loved his wife
Can't cope with the job
That he needs to go
To keep his house, his home
His place in the fold
Life crashing down
Mind in a fog
Body so weak
Can't bowl no more
Even if he still wanted to
And he's not even that old

As he sits in fear and suffering
He's thinking it through
The show the numbers he had
And the games he won
The applause and the fun
Somehow the memory
Just doesn't feel so good any more
Like it doesn't really mean a thing
He's facing some sort of ending
A life, his worries
May never mend

What's he gonna do
A Candlepin star
A star that we saw
A star that shone
For a few hundred thousand eyes or so
Until luck went bad
To be a star
That we could never never really know
A Candlepin star
A Candlepin star
Goodbye to the show
Goodbye to the show