The Game Lyrics - Mythical Kings & Iguanas/reflections In A Mud Puddle - Dory Previn

i watch the game 

aware of tricks 

i do not want to see 

i do not want to see 

a card is palmed 

the bets are placed 

the loaded dice make three 

and no one sees but me 

does no one see but me? 

the roulette wheel 

goes round and round 

and stops a bit too short 

it's made to stop too short 

it's built to stop too short 

the chips are down 

the croupier laughs 

and calls a cheated player sport 

he laughs and calls him sport 

and the sport laughs with him 

the sport laughs with him 

there are no clocks 

upon the gilded walls 

the drapes are drawn 

in everlasting night 

"we never close" 

the neon light 

blinks at the sky 

"we run an honest house" 

the advertisements lie 

for i have chanced to glimpse 

behind the imitation 

antique mirror 

and i have seen the pupil 

of the boss's 

spying eye 

pontius pilate's soldiers 

gambled at the bottom of the cross 

even his ragged robe was lost 

so would you kinda care 

to tell me boss 

what chance have we? 

what chance have we? 

would you kinda care 

to tell me boss? 

i watch the game 

and if i play 

i know i'll go for broke 

it must be go for broke 

the game is fixed 

it's just a 

funny 

foolish 

never ending joke 

a never ending joke