Player Not the Game (feat. Carl Thomas)

Start playin', we gon' talk about these players

And we gon' also talk about this game

This game

Is somethin' everybody wants to know about

But who's the victim?

Is it the player, or the one bein' played?

Or simply this game?

Early in the mornin' he waits by her door

But she's not there 'cause she don't care

Someone else she adores

And it's a quarter after midnight

The girl's by her phone

But he won't call and the tears fall

So she sleeps all alone

We're in a world that's a ball of confusion

The feeling is gone, still we keep holding on

To a love that is just an illusion

Get to the back of the line

Love will call you in time

On a kaleidoscope of love

People go round and round in circles

Falling in love and feeling pain

But it's the player not the game

See the parade of smiling faces

No masquerade can fade the shame

Too many tracks to hide the traces

But it's the player not the game

It's not the game

I keep all my feelings in a dark, secret place

Never go there, 'cause it's so rare true love shows its face

I stare out my window when I can't sleep at night

Many voices, many choices, but I know when it's right

We're in a world that's a ball of confusion

The feeling is wrong, still we keep holding on

To a love that is just an illusion

Fall to the back of the line

Love will call you in time, oh

On a kaleidoscope of love

You will go

People go round and round in circles

People go round, oh

Falling in love and feeling pain

But it's

But it's the player not the game

Whoa, yeah

See the parade of smiling faces

See the parade of

No masquerade can fade the shame

No

No hidin' traces

Too many tracks to hide the traces

But it's the player not the game

But it's the player

Ooh

Blame it on the player

It's hard

Don't fall too fast

Hey

Not the game

Blame it on the player

It's hard

Don't fall too fast

Not the game

Blame it on the player

It's hard

Don't fall too fast

Not the game

Blame it on the

It's hard

Don't fall

Yeah, not the game

Oh (Oh)

On a kaleidoscope of love

People go round and round in circles

People go, people go round, yeah

They go, they go, yeah

Falling in love and feeling pain

Oh

But it's the player not the game

But it's the player, it's not the game, oh, oh, whoa

See the parade of smiling faces

Oh, see them

No masquerade can fade the shame

Oh, see them (No, oh)

Too many tracks to hide the traces

Whoa

But it's the player not the game

On a kaleidoscope of love

Oh (People go round and around)

People go round and around, yeah

Listen to, feelin' pain, yeah, yeah, yeah

But it's the player not the game

Oh, whoa (Yeah, yeah)

Don't you know that we go round?

We go round

Every day, all day, seven days

Oh

But it's the player not the game

Yeah

Sometimes in love

On a kaleidoscope of love

People go round and round in circles

You go around and around and around and around again

Falling in love and feeling pain

But it's the player not the game

See the parade of smiling faces