12. AUSTRALIA: Rainbow Orbit – Betting On It

“Betting On It”
Performed by: Rainbow Orbit
Music by: P. McNulty
Lyrics by: P. McNulty

In their own words:
2020 to 2022 were not amazing in the life and times of Rainbow Orbit. In fairness, most of that was not stellar for everybody.
However, in this instance, workplace bullying and harassment led to years of mental health concerns, a forced admission into a psych hospital and the inability to return to my previous full time work.
Despite my boss proclaiming that “people don’t think as highly of you as you think they do”, I found the requisite self confidence to walk away and start my own business. After 25 years in a school that I loved, I met the unknown world.
Best decision I have made. Meanwhile, my former workplace has struggled with the resignation of 27 staff members in 18 months and… strangely enough, my replacement doesn’t know how to do my job. Parents have pulled their teens out of the school and I am getting numerous requests to accept them into my post school programs.

Success is the best revenge.
“Betting On It” is my finger up to my former boss. May you have the day you deserve!

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Lyrics:

Betting On It
You loved the way that you made me feel
You thought that what you were showing was charisma
You were mistaking my silent resistance
You never noticed the plan to get away
Now when the pieces don’t fall into place together
Think you know where you went wrong
Think you’re cursing me. I’m betting on it.One day, all you dreamed of will be history
One day, maybe quarter of a century

One smile, that’s me reclining in the corner
One man, I’m all it took to break you down
Now when the pieces don’t fall into place together
Think you know where you went wrong
Think you’re cursing me. I’m betting on it.
So narcissistic, counting victories
Not noticing that I was tying all my knots together
I’m down the hall, I’m the laughter down the line
And I thank you for the time you spent in underestimating me
Now when the pieces don’t fall into place together
Think you know where you went wrong
Think you’re cursing me. I’m betting on it.
See. I told you I was not a crayon
See what a tornado gust can do
See, appears that I was thinking highly
And it seems like everybody else agreesNow when the pieces don’t fall into place together
Think you know where you went wrong
Think you’re cursing me. I’m betting on it.