This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
It's time to play the game
Time to play the game! Hahaha
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 want to 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 good little bitch, from a smokin 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, hahaha
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 want to 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
Your gonna be the same
Your gonna change your name
Your gonna die in flames
Hahaha
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
Time to play the game! Hahaha
Time to play the game! Hahaha
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 want to 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 good little bitch, from a smokin 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, hahaha
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 want to 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
Your gonna be the same
Your gonna change your name
Your gonna die in flames
Hahaha
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
Time to play the game! Hahaha
Lyrics submitted by a scar in the sky
The Game Lyrics as written by Eliza Noble Brian Higgins
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Hipgnosis Songs Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Mmm about that stupid form of entertainment...
Good lord, I LOVE wrestling.
Anyway, I think you can really see this song as essential to Triple H's character in that he is someone who is always in control and makes you play by his rules. It is also certainly one way to understand the song: the person being dealt with is no laughing matter. If you don't take him seriously you will lose.
"As for the haters, who cares, it's just a stupid sport that only ignorant idiots watch and are entertained by (those under 18 are excused because they don't know any better)."
Oh the irony. You basically say "haters are pointless" then identify yourself as a hater in the same sentence.
Anyway, on topic of the song, I really don't think it's about much more than HHH's character. It's simple but good lord does it kick ass.
this song has no meaning i think this song was just another song that motorhead wrote for Hunter and that it has no meaning but if it did i would be:
Hunter Hearst Helmsley IS The Game there is no stopping him he is Smackdowns Elite!
"I am the game and I make the rules, So move on out, and you can die like a fool."
you cant tell him what to do ... Hunter tells YOU what to do
So move on out, and you can die like a fool."
or let me make a correction
and you can die like a fool."....get out of his way or not ur still gonna die!!
Hunter Hearst Helmsley...now that is a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.
I think its about the music industry and how only the tough survive. Its always been that way and nothing will change If you are not tough enough you just get used and spat out the other side with nothing - die like a fool.
this is a great song, I first heard it on WWF when I was little, my grandpa loved it...The song is really just saying, "i'm tougher than you, fight me and I'll prove it!"
I don' like Drowning Pool's version as much, but it still isn't a bad cover. This song is by far the best entrance music ever, this or "Glass Shatters" by Disturbed for Stone Cold. This is a great song and I just listento it for the hell of it a lot.
The best song suited to the best record. Just like Breaking Point's "One of a Kind" captured the essence of what RVD is about, this song does the same for HHH.
I didn't mean to type in record, but wrestler. My mistake.
disturbed's "the game" is the best game ever
no way, this song is much better than distrub`s version.