You Only Get One Shot

YOU ONLY GET ONE SHOT
© Jim Molinelli

[Verse 1]
This could be my one best chance,
I've waited all these years to do this thing…
I’d be a fool to let this moment pass,
I'm prepared to grasp the big brass ring!
Now is the moment...
I have to take my shot.

[BIG Chorus]
The hour has come!
The stars have aligned!
There will be no second chance!
You only get one shot...
You only get one shot...

[Verse 2]
Through the years I was building toward this moment.
I planned it all, and I prepared.
There’ll be no second chance and no postponement.
For this very purpose I’ve been spared.
Now I have arrived at this moment...
I NEED to take my shot!

[Chorus]
The hour has come!
The stars have aligned!
There will be no second chance!
You only get one shot...
You only get one shot...

[Verse 3]
And now I face my very destiny!
No time at all and it will be complete!
I could not foresee this feeling of ecstasy!
This shall be the last metaphysical conceit!
At last here I am, in this moment...
I MUST TAKE THIS SHOT!

[Chorus]
The hour has come!
The stars have aligned!
There will be no second chance!
You only get one shot...
You only get one shot...

[Verse 4]
It is over. It is finished.
I cannot move. I cannot breathe.

I can't go forward or go backward
I'm coming apart at every seam…

I took my shot, I took my shot, I took my shot.
AND SHE SAID YES!!!


...Oh no!

[Verse 5]
What did I just do?

Yes, I took my shot. Yes, it was my fate.
But what happens now? There needs to be a date!
Then we'll have a wedding. And she'll need a dress.
What will be the venue? Oh my God what a mess!

I am not prepared for THIS!
My big brass ring just turned gold.
I’m gonna be someone’s husband.
Be together until we get old…

What have I done? What have I done? What have I done?

But wait... just wait...
I'm getting married!
I'm getting married!
I'm getting married!

And all because she said YES!

You only get one shot.