The Game

A sense of duty was my one intention

And an ugly beauty was my own invention

Pride build on your refusal

And I refuse to need your approval

Too many seekers

Too few beacons

But through the fog

We'll keep on beaming

Through the crying hours of your glittering years

All the living out of your tinsel tears

And the midnight trains that I never made

'Cause I'd already played the game

Everybody's got their own good reason

Why their favorite season is their favorite season

Winter winners and those summers sons

Are good for everyone, good for everyone

Spring has sprung

And autumns so well done

And now I must do what

As to be done

It's a better thing that we do now

Forgetting everything, the why's and how's

While you reminisce about the things you miss

You won't be ready to kiss goodbye

The earth is a world

The world is a ball

A ball in a game

With no rules at all

And just as I wonder

At the beauty of it all

You'd go and drop it

And it breaks when it falls

I'll never understand why you thought I would

Need to be reassured and be understood

When I always knew that your bad's my good

And I was ready to be loved

A sense of duty was my one intention

And an ugly beauty was my own invention

Pride build on your refusal

And I refuse to need your approval

Understand why you thought I would

Need to be reassured and be understood

When I always knew that your bad's my good

And I was ready to be

It's a better thing that we do now

Forgetting everything, the why's and how's

You reminisce about the things you miss

You will be ready to kiss

Through the crying hours of your glittering years

All the living out of your tinsel tears

And the midnight trains that I never made

'Cause I'd already played the game