The Game

A sense of duty was my only intention

And an ugly beauty was my own invention

Pride a proud refusal

I refuse to need your approval

Too many seekers, too few beacons

Through the fog we will keep on beamin'

Through the cryin' hours of your glitter years

All the livin' out of your tinsel tears

And the midnight trains I've 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 winters and those summer suns

Aren't good for everyone, aren't good for everyone

Spring has sprung and autumn's so well done

So well done

And it's a better thing that we do now

Forgettin' everything, the whys and hows

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

Just as I wonder at the beauty of it all

You go and drop it and it breaks and falls

I'll never understand why you thought I would

Need to be reassured, be understood

When I always knew your bad's my good

And I was ready, ready to be loved

Born under Mars with Jupiter risin'

Fallen from stars that lit my horizon

I'll never understand why you thought I would

Need to be reassured, be understood

When I always knew your bad's my good

And I was ready to be

Through the cryin' hours of your glitter years

All the livin' out of your tinsel tears

And the midnight trains I've never made

'Cause I'd already played

It's a better thing that we do now

Forgettin' everythin', the whys and hows

While you reminisce about the things you miss

You won't be ready to kiss goodbye