Cover art for Games People Play by Merle Haggard

Games People Play

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Oh the games people play now Every night and every day now Never meaning what they say now Never saying what they mean So they while away the hours In their ivory towers Till they're covered up with flowers In the back of a black limousine Chorus La-din-da ....... I'm talking 'bout you and me and the games people play Oh they make one another cry Break their hearts and they say goodbye Cross their hearts and they hope to die That the other was to blame Neither one would ever give in So they gaze at an eight by ten Thinkin' 'bout the way it might have been And it's a dirty rotten shame Repeat Chorus People walkin' up to ya Singin' 'Glory, Hallalueah" And they try to sock it to ya In the name of the Lord Gonna they teach you how to meditate Read your horoscope and cheat your fate And the further more to hell with hate Come on and get on board Look around and tell me what you see What's happening to you and me God grant me the serenity To just remember who I am Repeat Chorus

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