they say that anyone can make it here; you just need some will and some way and all of it can be all you ever dreamed.
they don't tell you that the waitress - the one who fills your coffee mug to the brim and smiles at your meager two-dollar tip - can play Beethoven's 9th better than Ludwig himself; or that the homeless man on the corner wrapped in yesterday's newspapers begging for the change you don't have just wanted to be a star once upon a time.
they don't tell you about the failures, the missed chances, the "better-luck-next-time-kid".
they tell you about that one-in-a-million, that lucky strike.
they say that anyone can make it here but they don't mean you.