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Artist: Gossip
Canonical path: /gossip/i-won-t-play
Related lyric paths: 6
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I Won't Play
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I Won't Play
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You get the worn idea from someone else
How you live with her, instead of live with yourself
What your secret, what your secret, what your secret
It's a mystery how you sleep at night
And it seems to me you're digging deeper,
and deeper, and deeper!
Chorus:
And the blame is the name, is a name of a game
Then I won't play, if it means losing to you
I'm on a first main basis with your victims of love
I give you so many chances but you stood me all up
I hope it's a..
Oh, oh, oh, all your jokes are on me,
but who's laughing now?
You're ancient history, another face in the crowd
How you're doing, you're doing, you're doing
Common decency, imagine the...
..the sympathy just wasn't deserved
And she won't either, don't either, won't either
Chorus: (x2)
And the blame is the name, is a name of a game
Then I won't play, if it means losing to you
I'm on a first main basis with your victims of love
I give you so many chances but you stood me all up
I hope it's a..
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