The Game - Chico Debarge

Rollin' down the highway

With a trunkful of work

I just lost my job

Didn’t wanna be a mailroom clerk

Besides it didn’t pay but dimes

And the boss had a disrespectful mouth

If I wasn’t on parole

I would’ve knocked the motherfucker out

So I’m drivin', gotta get me some fast cash

Ain’t tryin' to hurt nobody

Mama, maybe it’s wrong

But I gotta get the money, it’s a must have

If I get caught, I go back to jail with no bail

It’s the risk that I’m takin'

I’m convinced so, ain’t fakin'

It’s the life I choose

Win or lose, that’s the way you play life’s game

If you play it wrong then you’re the one to blame

If I can choose I would make a change

But it’s the same old song that everybody shame

Now, I’m my own boss

And I ain’t got no friction

'Coz I’m a bootleg pharmacist

You don’t need no prescription

that’s my law

Tryin' to get the dough and retire

'Coz if I stay in it too long

The Feds gonna set my ass on fire

And if they come

Gotta hold court in the streets

And one of three things will happen

I get away, get the chair or die cappin'

And if they catch me right

And I can’t fight, I go back to prison

And like my mama say, you can’t always bust your gun

She goes sometimes you gotta run

Win or lose, that’s the way you play life’s game

If you play it wrong then you’re the one to blame

If I can choose I would make a change

But it’s the same old song that everybody shame

All the odds are against me

'Coz I’m already a felon

I’d probably die this time in jail

'Coz I ain’t doin' no tellin'

I’ll probably lose the girl that I love

She’ll turn her back once the money’s spent

And play it off to her friends

Like it was a heated argument

Win or lose, that’s the way you play life’s game

And you’re the one to blame

If I can choose I would make a change

And everybody shame

Bad game, it’s a bad game, yeah

It’s a bad game, yeah, yeah

It’s a bad game, yeah, yeah, yeah

To the mother who’s watching over

You know the game ain’t fair

Sometimes you can’t change their mind

So, all you got is prayer

Win or lose, that’s the way you play life’s game

Then you’re the one to blame

If I can choose I would make a change

That everybody shame

Win or lose, that’s the way you play life’s game

Listen, I ain’t got that much time

Only four minutes to sing to you

But I hope and pray that you will listen

While I try to school you

Bad game, bad game

Nobody wins

That everybody shame