Was in the bright morning of my day I scattered my fortunes every way In firm of purpose and unsettled mind I crawled in the darkness, my soul was blind I met a young girl whose brain was on fire She said: Follow me now if your mind will not tire I'll show you a light bulb and I'll show you the Sun I'll show you a rainbow where the colours have run And if you could see the colours That go flashing through my mind I have quite sensational senses For one so colourblind Take my eyes and you will see Your painted priestess differently I'm not to blame, my mind is lame It's only a game I'm not to blame, my mind is lame It's only a game She took me for hers, though I was but a child Her hair, it was free and my thoughts, they grew wild She gave me the hills and she gave me the sea But she kept her soul and she took mine from me But as days went on, I learned to be free I learned to take as she took from me Take the sting from your tongue and taste the sweet food The way I may want to and my taste is good With your sweeping hand of judgment You have pushed aside mankind And you corroded pearls of wisdom They did castigate my mind But sleeping fools like me and mine Have never drunk from your sparkling wine We're not to blame, our minds are lame It's only a game We're not to blame, our minds are lame It's only a game I left her one morning as she lay asleep From London and stillness and sadness did creep With new thoughts of freedom, I'm on my way home Left her with her problems, went to solve my own Now often as darkness turns towards day And the fingers of sleep begin pointing my way I might think of that girl as I turn towards bed But no pain do I feel, no tears do I shed And I was thinking that our springtime love Was as eternal as the river But a time must come when eyelids Must be gently closed forever And the still grey hand of sorrow Points the way towards tomorrow And I bid you good day I'm on my way, I've nothing to say So I bid you good day I'm on my way, I've nothing to say So I bid you good day I'm on my way, I've nothing to say I bid you good day I bid you good day I bid you good day I bid you good day I bid you good day