Strange Game

Album: Slow Horses (2022)
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  • Surrounded by losers
    Misfits and boozers
    Hanging by your fingernails
    You made one mistake
    You got burned at the stake
    You're finished, you're foolish, you failed

    There's always a hope
    On this slippery slope
    Somewhere a ghost of a chance
    To get back in that game
    And burn off your shame
    And dance with the big boys again

    (Ooh-uh-uh)
    (Ooh-uh-uh)
    (Ooh-uh-uh)
    (Ooh-ooh-ooh)

    It's a strange, strange game
    Strange, strange game
    Such a shame, shame, shame
    Yes a strange game

    You got to carry the blame
    In this strange game
    You're out on a limb
    And you're trying to get in
    It's a strange game

    You piled up the corpses
    Exhausted your sources
    Living right under a cloud
    The odds are against you
    The gods haven't blessed you
    You better get back on the rails

    Drill down on the data
    Keep pushing the paper
    The damps dripping down on the walls
    It's a million to one
    There's a place in the sun
    To dance with the big boys again

    (Ooh-uh-uh)
    (Ooh-uh-uh)
    (Ooh-uh-uh)
    (Ooh-ooh-ooh)

    It's a strange, strange game
    Strange, oh, so strange
    You don't even know my real name
    It's a strange game

    You got to carry the blame
    In this strange strange game
    You're out on a limb
    Trying hard to get in
    It's a strange game Writer/s: Daniel Pemberton, Mick Jagger
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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