The Games You Play (featuring Voice)-Wax Tailor

[ti:The Games You Play (featuring Voice)] [ar:Wax Tailor] [al:Hope & Sorrow] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.37]When I was a kid [00:01.48]We used to play a game [00:03.51] [00:21.23]I think you know the rules of our game [00:23.02] [00:24.78]I have no time to play games [00:26.70]Sometimes I flow staccato [00:27.35] [00:27.96]Strip you of vibrato [00:29.38]While you be acting macho [00:30.88]I try and switch it up [00:32.23]I see the games you play [00:33.68]And the traps you lay [00:35.11]Not fit to fall in [00:36.35]But I let you play them anyway [00:37.96]Sometimes I flow staccato [00:38.99]Strip you of vibrato [00:40.93]While you be acting macho [00:42.41]I try and switch it up [00:43.89]I see the games you play [00:45.38]And the traps you lay [00:46.72]Not fit to fall in [00:47.91]But I let you play them anyway [00:49.66]Sit hear the clock tick [00:51.27]Watch the leaves on the plant flick [00:53.16]From the fan above the room and I lit [00:55.19]Head trip deliberate [00:56.45]Cease fighting the feeling and submit flow with it [00:58.91]Like the path pre-exists in hidden codes Masonic [01:01.42]They peep us like a web cam from the pyramid's attic [01:04.53]Passed from hand to hand let's say coincidence [01:06.88]Or better yet sixth sense [01:07.92]My instincts telling me to back up from [01:09.45]That handshake that was intense [01:10.34]My instincts telling me to back up from [01:12.02]That handshake that was intense [01:13.20]Brush it off and commence [01:14.43]Blame it on myself tripping [01:15.74]'Til the sh*t hits the fan [01:17.49]'Cause I steered from the plan [01:18.86]About face and Billy Jean step into place [01:21.07]Throw my coat on the hook [01:22.59]Recap the time that I wasted [01:23.88]I know that spitting's a bad habit [01:25.35]But I can't help the taste [01:26.73]Still searching for the clues as it becomes a cold case [01:29.34]Procrastinator [01:29.64]'Til I think to remove the sheet from your face [01:32.26]Reveal the naysayer [01:34.35] [01:36.14]Sometimes I flow staccato [01:36.89]Strip you of vibrato [01:38.60]While you be acting macho [01:40.11]I try and switch it up [01:41.63]I see the games you play [01:43.06]And the traps you lay [01:44.41]Not fit to fall in [01:45.64]But I let you play them anyway [01:47.23]Sometimes I flow staccato [01:48.60]Strip you of vibrato [01:50.10]While you be acting macho [01:51.56]I try and switch it up [01:53.13]I see the games you play [01:54.67]And the traps you lay [01:56.04]Not fit to fall in [01:57.27]But I let you play them anyway [01:59.50] [02:10.91]How could you do this to me [02:12.39]Me me me me [02:14.58] [02:15.57]Don't you ever get tired of thinking about your [02:19.40] [02:22.37]Now you ain't saying nada [02:23.79]Sweating getting hotta [02:25.08]Change your tune why botha [02:26.66]I'm bought to rip you up [02:28.00]Such a control freak [02:29.47]You mouth the words I speak [02:31.39]You question me [02:32.95]But you ain't even listening [02:34.54]Your world is make believe [02:36.12]But I keep pretending that I'm flexible [02:38.14]So you think your will's got me bending [02:40.25]Putting all your energy into negativity [02:42.63]You holding over me while you're steady scheming [02:45.45]But I'm making moves [02:46.71]While you're sleeping and dreaming [02:48.09]Of being larger than life [02:49.37]Your own hype you believing [02:50.68] [02:51.59]Well now [02:52.41]You've been faking the funk since the beginning [02:54.58]Too many chapters in now to rewrite and fix the ending [02:57.39]Besides you question [02:58.48]What kind of message that be sending [03:00.38]That you's a chump punk butt so what [03:03.47]I care not of the role you choose to play [03:06.18]By the way [03:06.87]I'm sure of a beginning and an end [03:08.65]But everything in between is all grey [03:11.09]All grey all grey all grey [03:13.28] [03:14.27]Sometimes I flow staccato [03:15.56]Strip you of vibrato [03:17.00]While you be acting macho [03:18.39]I try and switch it up [03:19.88]I see the games you play [03:21.37]And the traps you lay [03:22.73]Not fit to fall in [03:23.98]But I let you play them anyway [03:25.57]Sometimes I flow staccato [03:26.85]Strip you of vibrato [03:28.36]While you be acting macho [03:30.01]I try and switch it up [03:31.53]I see the games you play [03:32.96]And the traps you lay [03:34.30]Not fit to fall in [03:35.62]But I let you play them anyway [03:37.82] [04:10.37]I don't understand this game