The Game

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Millie came up playing in the boys’ clubs, but they made her play at midnight or at eight
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Her friends all said the times were finally changin’, and it only felt a few centuries too late
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Her eyes were always deep inside a notebook, her hands were always tuning her guitar
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And while some stay busy waiting for permission, she was on her way to be a star

[Chorus 1]
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And if you’d asked her if anyone had held her back
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She’d tell you she’d forgot most of their names
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‘Cause the losers only think about the winners
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The winners only think about the game

[Verse 2]
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And then Millie fell in love with a civilian, or at least we know he fell in love with her
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He could see how bright her light was shining, he could feel how wild her fire burned
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But love has its own kind of symmetry, you have to give as much as you receive
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And once he realized he could never give her nothing, he decided it was time for him to leave

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[Chorus 2]
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But now he likes to criticize her privately
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While she simply says that neither were to blame
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‘Cause the losers only think about the winners
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The winners only think about the game

[Verse 3]
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So Millie kept on adding to the setlist, working on her studio ten
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And for the first time found it hard telling the difference, between all her friends and all 
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her fans
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Which left her with a special brand of emptiness, she channelled right back into the songs
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She wasn’t gonna ask herself the question, if this is what she wanted all along

[Chorus 3]
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Some people said she was a genius
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Some people said she was insane
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But those losers only talk about the winners
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And those winners only think about the game

[Verse 4]
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So Millie knew just when the dust was settled, when it’s time to put the pencil down
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When the harmony is only just a shadow, of the way it felt the first hundred times around
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Which left it to the critics and the experts, to tell the world how Millie really felt
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To somehow say she lost some competition, she was only ever having with herself

[Chorus 4]
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Some might look for meaning in the ashes
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She just misses standing in the flames
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‘Cause those losers only think about the winners
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And the winners only think about the game
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Oh-oh, the losers only think about the winners
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The winners only think about the game