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While stopping one innocent afternoon
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For paper and magazines
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My attention was drawn to a riot of color
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The loveliest I've ever seen
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All in the shape of a plastic cube
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Red and yellow and blue
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How lovely, I cried, What a clever design!
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Great tell me sir, what does it do?
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That's easy, he said as he handled my cash
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And he dropped the cube into a sack
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Some of the colors you twist left or right
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Some you twist forward, some back
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Before very long if you're clever at this
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You've got all the colors the same
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And then if you like, you start over again
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For it's fun and it's only a game.
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Only a game, only a game.
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I'm muttering under my breath
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Only a game, only a game
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Like dying is only death!
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I talk to myself as I walk down the street
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Till old friends all cry, What a shame!
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For he used to say 'Hello!' and 'How do you do?'
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All he says now is 'Only a game'!
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That night after dinner, I settled myself
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Planning to watch some TV
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Safe in the warmth of my favorite chair
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And the bosom of my family
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Basking in fellowship, brimful of cheer
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I bade my child, Turn on the tube!
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And as I was watching my favorite show
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I carelessly picked up the cube
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I twiddled it this way, I twiddled it that
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Haha! I exclaimed, This is strange!
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No matter how often I twiddle this cube
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The blasted thing don't seem to change!
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I felt myself growing the slightest bit warm
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As I twisted and whirled and spun
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They tell me they found me there early next morn
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I was screaming, By God, nearly done!
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For it's only a game, only a game.
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I'm muttering under my breath
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Only a game, only a game
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Like dying is only death!
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I talk to myself as I walk down the street
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Till old friends all cry, What a shame!
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For he used to say 'Hello!' and 'How do you do?'
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All he says now is 'Only a game'!
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Somehow I got dressed and they drove me to work
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And I slowly came out my haze
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By a fierce act of will, I sat down to my tasks -
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There was talk I might soon earn a raise
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The boss called me into his office at ten
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And he said to me, Glad that you came!
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For I'm thinking of adding this toy to our line
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For it's fun and it's only a game!
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Well, I don't know what happened ?
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I don't want to know
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I'll have all my life to repent
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They say I did something with that little cube
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That the boss was obliged to resent
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And now I get visitors here in my room
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And they murmur, Poor man, what a shame!
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For he's twisting his ears
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and he's twiddling his nose
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And he tells us it's only a game!
Outro
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Only a game, only a game.
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I'm muttering under my breath
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Only a game, only a game
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Like dying is only death!
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I talk to myself as I walk down the street
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Till old friends all cry, What a shame!
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For he used to say 'Hello!' and 'How do you do?'
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All he says now is 'Only a game'!