Everyone knows except yourrself That these phases are fleeting Time to take stock And face up to the path life is leading Watching your eyes with your eyes And seeing through death’s disguise Every awake finds the wake Of the black water breaking Watching your eyes with your eyes And seeing through beauty’s disguise Life is a game When you win you begin to start losing You fight to get by To grow old And then die alone with nothing But watching my eyes with my eyes Seeing through death’s disguise Photographs end And here come your friends In the abyss you feel Tenderly kissed and unaching And there’s no appeal to seek out The next one to forsake you Except when I watch your eyes And see through your lies Love is a game When you win you begin to start losing And all that remains Is an old set of plans that’s abandoned Reel turns around and I play the clown Get out my life and let me be Leave me free to leave me free Looking ahead with no backward glances