Lyrics to
Don’t Play The Game

This version of Don’T Play The Game was released by Waylon Jennings in 1970.

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The hardest thing you ever do
Is love yourself, that gal don’t love you
She’ll cause you sleepless nights and endless pain
But if you don’t like the rules don’t play the game.

Everytime that girl walks by
Your heart will ache your very soul will die
But love’s one sided it’s just yourself to blame
And if you don’t like the rules don’t play the game.

You think by now I see the fool I’ve been
Given my heart a chance to win
Well, I do but I don’t, I will but I won’t
Deep inside I know I’ll do again.

The hardest thing you ever do
Is love yourself, that gal don’t love you
With love one sided it’s just yourself to blame
And if you don’t like the rules don’t play the game.

If you don’t like the rules don’t play the game…

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You can understand the lyrics to Don’T Play The Game if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Don’T Play The Game" means the words set to the music of Don’T Play The Game, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Waylon Jennings. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Don’T Play The Game and the lyrics to Don’T Play The Game are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Waylon Jennings who came here looking just for the lyrics to Don’T Play The Game, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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