The Game

Album: Hammered (2002)
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  • It's time to play the game
    Time to play the game
    Ha, ha-ha
    Ha-ha, ha

    It's all about the game and how you play it
    All about control and if you can take it
    All about your debt and if you can pay it
    It's all about pain and who's gonna make it

    I am the game, you don't wanna play me
    I am control, no way you can change me
    I am heavy debt, no way you can pay me
    I am the pain and I know you can't take me

    Look over your shoulder, ready to run
    Like a Cleveland bitch from a smoking gun
    I am the game and I make the rules
    So move on out here and die like a fool
    Try to figure out what my move's gonna be
    Come on over, sucker, why don't you ask me?
    Don't you forget that the price you can pay
    'Cause I am the game and I want to play

    It's time to play the game
    Ha-ha-ha-ha

    Time to play the game

    It's all about the game and how you play it
    It's all about control and if you can take it
    It's all about your debt and if you can pay it
    It's all about pain and who's gonna make it

    I am the game, you don't wanna play me
    I am control, there's no way you can change me
    I am your debt, and you know you can't pay me
    I am your pain and I know you can't take me

    Play the game, you're gonna be the same
    You're gonna change your name
    You're gonna die in flames
    Ha-ha-ha-ha

    Time to play the game

    It's time to play the game
    It's time to play the game
    It's time to play the game
    Ha-ha, ha-ha

    Time to play the game
    Ha, ha-ha Writer/s: Ian Fraser Kilmister, James Alan Johnston, Micael Kiriakos Delaoglou, Philip Anthony Campbell
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Anthony from Guadalupe, AzThey performed "The Game" as Triple H made his way to the ring at WrestleMania 21.
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