Lyrics

Play the Game
Lyrics by Melina RoChelle Hicks
Music by Erika RoShawn Hicks
From Play the Game
© EMK Productions 2004

Verse 1
If you want to play the game
Learn to play it
Fight the wave
Fight to say it
Don’t hold onto a dream that’s not your own

If you think the people here
Are all in disguise
You don’t like the look in their eyes
Get up on your horse and go home
(Go home, go home, go home, go home)

Cause its just a little lame
When you say it
Take the pain
Don’t negate it
Me I’m way too young to be old
(Too young, too young, too young to be old)


Verse 2
If you think you wanna be
Don’t deny it
Skip a dream
Try to try it
Don’t bark at me I did not pick your bone

Man I think I see a tear
Well up in your pride
You’re too uncommitted to cry
Get back on the path that you lead home

Cause I know a lacadais when I see it
Neither me, nor beneath it
Me I may beholden to gold

Chorus
It like a theme when you need it
(theme to stand upright)
To stand upright
Maybe a finger you need to
Point yourself high

It’s like the thought
Creep a creepin
(creepin through your life)
right through you life
It like party you think is
Gonna surprise

It’s like a dream when you need it
(dream to fill the night)
To fill the night
Its like pinch when you need to
Know you’re alive

It’s like a gleam and twinkle
(In your mama’s eyes)
In you mama’s eye
It like a space in the middle
Kept deep and wide

(Repeat Verse 1)

Chorus

Special
Couldn’t it be what I suppose?
Given the fear that you dispose
Maybe its time for you to fold
Make an excuse you’re good to go

Oooo oooo ooo ooo ooo ooo x4

If you wanna play the game
Learn to play it
Fight the wave
Fight to say it

Ad lib

Play the game to fight the roll (repeat & fade)