Same Old Game

Everybody is involved with everyone else, and everyone knows it. When you aren't around, they are talking about you.

Same Old Game
Words And Music By
Cheryl Wheeler
Everybody knows what you're goin' through
Everybody's been there a time or two
And everybody's talkin' but they don't tell you
You know you've even done the same
We meet you in the bars and we say hello
Ask you how you are when we think we know
And we nod with knowing glances when we see you go
And say she's only got herself to blame
(Chorus)
It's the same old game, you do your best you play your part
It's the same old game
Everybody talk about your broken heart
When you turn around
`cause there ain't no secrets in town
You talk about the trouble that you took from her
A hundred different stories of the way things were
But it hardly ever happens that you both concur
Except to swear the other side's untrue
You can't believe the people in this nosy town
With everybody whisperin' and runnin' around
But you know you never minded till it all came down
And they were whisperin the worst of you
It's the same old game, and in the past you played your part
It's the same old game, everybody talk about your broken heart
when you turn around
`cause there ain't no secrets in town
There ain't no secrets in town
And there probably never were
Nancy loves Mary, Peter left Sue
Patty loves Mark and Timothy too
You know it isn't viscous and you know it isn't mean
Don't you know this is just an ordinary scene
If the confessions never tally with the things you've heard
Then you can be nobody's hangin onto every word
But when the cards are on the table and the drinks are stirred
You know we'll listen to them all the same
It's the same old game, and in the past you've played your part
It's the same old game, everybody talk about your broken heart
When you turn around
'Cause there ain't no secrets and nothin's sacred
There ain't no secrets in town
9/30/84
(P) May 27, 2003
Penrod And Higgins Music / Amachrist Music
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