Playing the Game Video (MV)

I spend my time dwelling in an empty clear
Chasing after my youth as it plummets to eternity
Wondering why all the women and the children disappear
Shaking my fist at all the things that'll never be
As the men draw their weapons in the name of fear
Screaming out for an echo in the pirouetting plan
And I can't fight back with a sensitive tear
As it tumbles down the drain in the dreams of the damned
Yeah, this shell is thick and this burden is a bitch
I couldn't adequately express how bad I desire
To be free of the woe of this isolating niche
Where the price of advice is too high to conspire
With the implementation of any loving word
To ever sever chains with the implication taken
In a pill made to still all the voices I heard
On the day that the Earth was forsaken and shaken

Eyes open up and the dreams, they die
Come to find out I'm a regular guy
It's a good one
Playing the game
They ask me if I'm coping today
I smile and tel them I'm okay
It's a good one
Playing the game

If this last battle doesn't win the war
Then I'm a lay down my sword on a bed of security
And pick up a vow that I will fight no more
As the King of this land sheds a tear for the economy
I wanna satiate fate and not procreate hate
Paint the probabilities in a positive way
I wanna succeed the creed and breed and feed
Lead off the little mes to a better beautiful day
Well, maybe it's worth it at the end of the plot
Once I'm far beyond the wrongs that are presently plaguing
And the deadly diagnosis that'll tell me I'm not
Safe under the Sun unless I'm broken and begging
Oh, terrible bane, why must you insist
On haunting me so heavily in this hour of trying?
And though there never remained another scar on my wrist
Everything I'll ever be is just a denouement dying

Eyes open up and the dreams, they die
Come to find out I'm a regular guy
It's a good one
Playing the game
They ask me if I'm coping today
I smile and tel them I'm okay
It's a good one
Playing the game
Eyes open up and the dreams, they die
Come to find out I'm a regular guy
It's a good one
Playing the game
They ask me if I'm coping today
I smile and tel them I'm okay
It's a good one
Playing the game