This Has Always Been (song #116)

This Has Always Been

I gave in to your control

You get to call all the shots

But you're still not happy

Telling me what is and what is not

What cards I can play

And what hands I can turn

This has always been your game

I know that nothing hasn't changed

No one's right when no one's to blame

Do you still want to feel the same?

I keep trying to let it all go

I've trusted you to play this fair

But only you have changed me

And you seem so very unaware

I can't get inside

I cannot get through

This has always been your game

I know that nothing hasn't changed

No one's right when no one's to blame

Do you still want to feel the same?

Everything in moderation

Not just idle fascination

The heart's desecration

An endless and empty conversation

Am I cutting you?

Are these words getting in?

Do I need to start over?

I don't know where to (I should?) begin

This has always been your game

I know that nothing hasn't changed

No one's right when no one's to blame

Do you still want to feel the same?

© 2014 by Richard Maxwell

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