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Love To Play The Game

from Murder Ballads for Lovers by Ben Senterfit

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Dedicated to the futile nature of being a man.

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Love to Play the Game

If I had a single dollar
And It cost your love to play
Boy I’d throw that paper down and lose your
Love to play the game

‘Cause a love can’t last forever
Even if you break the rules
But the game comes running back to you
Like a joker plays the fool

And I can’t believe I’m standing here
A dollar in my hand
And I’m throwing out your love to see
If you come running back again

And when the game is ended
And I’m alone again at last
Man I’ll take my arms around your love
Like a window to the past

I’m standing in the darkness
And I’m holding out the blade
And I run my fingers down the rail
I’m a betting man’s brigade

But I’m betting on lost lovers
And I’m throwing out your name
And I’ running out of time to find
A jukebox to serenade

Well a man can't run from loving
like he can from aches an pains
but he can buy himself some time
if he can learn to love the game

And in the end it stands for nothing
but a lonely way to choose
between the days that rise and fall
and yet another chance to lose

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from Murder Ballads for Lovers, released June 24, 2011
Written and performed by Ben Senterfit
Kailin Yong on Violin

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Ben Senterfit Red Hook, New York

Musician, Educator, Songwriter, Dad, Mediocre carpenter.

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