The B-Side

If I were an album track I'd be a B-side, on the back A simple little throwaway No one would give the time of day If I were a forty-five As B-side I would come alive The A-side gets initial props Then suddenly comes to a stop The DJ accidentally flips The record and the needle skips As A-side on the charts it dips The B-side becomes A's eclipse The B-side is the sleeper hit For A, no one remembers it They say "It was B all along" And now they're playing just my song If the B-side is the hit And A-side ends up in the pit Was it an accidental flip Or blatant, willful brinksmanship?