The Game Never Changes

Steve Kilbey / Martin Kennedy

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Lyrics (unofficial)

"Wanna read back what he said there. I'm having a hard time reading it."
"Yeah, and he's trying to maintain log again or get logged again but he can't seem to get it. It's fluctuating a little bit. We're receiving ??? [0:21]."
"Try that."
"Did you see anything else that might, uh, shed some light on this?"

Once I kept my love in a drawer
And everything I saw was ugly and was poor
Once I slept in your bed
And everything you fed me was rotten and dead

The game never changes
The game never changes

Then I decided to break free
I wandered through temptation but you were still guiding me
Then I wanted to come back
And every crack I filled was void and black

The warming sun
Stabbed the endless fires
Liars and the frauds line up
We gotta keep this shine up
On our machine
I've seen devastation upon the 'morrow
Can't go forward, can't go back
Can't go anywhere at all

Once I kept my mind so pure
You told me how sick I was and that you had the cure
Once I slept in your arms
Praying all your prayers and singing all your psalms

The game never changes
The game never changes
The game never changes
Never changes

All my ordinary, orchestrated, belated
Temper tantrums that I threw
In the sun room
Where I found a hundred pounds of gold
And some photos of us in much happier times

Blimey, time has fled
I said I'm on my own
With some girls who just flew in to catch my show
You know there's nothing going on (going on, going on, going on)

The game never changes
For any of us, we are all busted
When I finally get you alone
Some phony alibi, you must try harder than that
And we've turned into cartoons
A pair of buffoons on long afternoons
Where we lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie
Lie lie lie lie lie
Lie lie lie lie

The game never changes

The game never changes

The game never changes

"Did you see anything else that might, uh, shed some light on this?"