you play the game desperately

desperately is how you play it

 

with the luck of a beginner

and the fatalism of an expert

 

at any moment you could surprise us

with a brilliant move

 

at any moment you could quit

with an expression that stops us cold

 

we tell stories about you

we're telling them about ourselves

 

ripping a hole through our myths

you're leaving us with nothing left

 

naked with you we’re all in bed

we can speculate on what it’d be like

 

but it wouldn’t make the work 

any easier