Lene Marlin
Playing My Game

01   Sitting Down Here (04:00)

I'm sitting down here but hey you can't see me

Your words cut rather deeply
They're just some other lies
I'm hiding from a distance
I've got to pay the price
Defending all against it
I really don't know why
You're obsessed with all my secrets
You always make me cry
You seem to wanna hurt me
No matter what I do
I'm telling just a couple
But somehow it gets to you

But I've learned to get revenge
And I swear you'll experience that someday

I'm sitting down here but hey you can't see me
Kinda invisible you don't sense my stay
Not truly hiding not like a shadow
Just thought I would join you for one day

I'm sitting down here but hey you can't see me

I'm not trying to avoid you
Just don't wanna hear your voice
When you call me up so often
I don't really have a choice
You're talking like you know me
And wanna be my friend
But that's really too late now
I won't try it once again
You may think that I'm a loser
That I don't really care
You may think that it's forgotten
But you should be aware

That I've learned to get revenge
And I swear you'll experience that someday

I'm sitting down here but hey you can't see me
Kinda invisible you don't sense my stay
Not truly hiding not like a shadow
Just thought I would join you for one day

I'm sitting down here but hey you can't see me
Kinda invisible you don't sense my stay
Not truly hiding not like a shadow
But sure I wanna join you for one day

You seem to wanna hurt me
No matter what I do
I'm telling just a couple
But somehow it gets to you

But I've learned to get revenge
And I swear you'll experience that someday

I'm sitting down here but hey you can't see me
Kinda invisible you don't sense my stay
Not truly hiding not like a shadow
Just thought I would join you for one day

I'm sitting down here but hey you can't see me
Kinda invisible you don't sense my stay
Not truly hiding not like a shadow
Just thought I would join you for one day

I'm sitting down here but hey you can't see me
Kinda invisible you don't sense my stay
Not truly hiding not like a shadow
Just thought I would join you for one day.

02   Playing My Game (05:38)

Won't open my mouth
You know what I'll say
It hurts me that it's gotta be this way
I can no longer hide
God knows I've tried
I held on as long as I could
If I could change it I would
This is the way I am
And this is what I do

Chorus:
I cry my tears
But they're not for you
Playing a game
I know you've done too
I shouldn't have waited
But still it is all the same
'Cause you know
I'm just playing my game

Close your ears if you don't like
The sound of my voice
You're acting like I
Like I had a choice
But to leave you behind
Well, I've made up my mind

Chorus

Don't hold me with your eyes
The light in them I cannot see
No need to blind me
There's this darkness where I walk
You thought you had your future
All figured out

I cry...

Chorus

I'm playing my game

03   Unforgivable Sinner (04:06)

Kinda lose your sense of time
'Cause the tears don't matter no more
All the feelings that you hide
Gonna tear you up inside
You hope she knows you tried

Follows you around all day
And you wake up soaking wet
'Cause between this world and eternity
There is a face you hope to see, yeah

CHORUS
You know where you've sent her
You sure know where you are
You're trying to ease off
But you know you won't get far
And now she's up there
Sings like an angel
But you can't hear those words
And now she's up there
Sings like an angel
Unforgivable sinner

You've been walking around in tears
No answers are there to get
You won't ever be the same
Someone cries and you're to blame
Struggling with a fight inside
Sorrow you'll defeat
The picture you see it won't disappear
Not unpleasant dreams or her voice you hear

Repeat CHORUS

Maybe one time lost
But now you are found
Stand right up before
You hit the ground
Maybe one time lost
But now you are found
Stand right up before
You hit the ground
Hit the ground

Repeat CHORUS

04   Flown Away (04:13)

I've flown too high on borrowed wings
Beyond the clouds and where the angels sings
In a sky containing
No one but me
Up there's all-empty
And down there's the sea
No one here but me

There's nothing but light
That comes into sight, oh

There's something up here that makes me wince
And I still got the feelings that I've felt ever since
I got to this place
Arrived at last
In front there's the future
Right back there's the past
Everything's moving so fast

There's nothing but light
That comes into sight, oh

The present like I've never seen it before
Is this the right place to stay?
Please, my wings
Fly me away

The present like I've never seen it before
Is this the right place to stay?
Please, my wings
Fly me away

Please my wings
Fly me away

Please, my wings
Fly me away

05   The Way We Are (04:05)

06   So I See (04:55)

07   Maybe I'll Go (04:42)

You think you've made it
Everything is going so fine
But then appears someone who wanna
Tear you down
Wanna rip you off those
Few nice things you've found
When and if you hit the ground
Then it's falling kinda hard

'Cause all you do is being yourself
Trying everything to succeed somehow
But that's not the way things are right now
Feeling kinda lost

Those reasons
Those unkind words being expressed
Oh, they'll get to you, I promise, one day
But maybe that's too late for you to say
I knew it from the go, 'cause you know
That's some miles away from the truth
Don't forget

Hey, what do you think of me now
Am I not like I once were
Still if you don't know me
What's the story of this pen?
I guess you're not a stranger
And I can tell you're not a friend
It might take a while but I guess I'll manage waiting till then
Then, when you confront me with your thoughts

You may think I don't notice
Don't get a bit hurt by what you do
I ask to please think of
What I've done to you
Please search inside and let me know
If I've done something wrong I guess I'll go
Far (far)
Hidden (hidden)
Never to be found

Just let me know
Then I'll go
Then I'll go

08   Where I'm Headed (04:16)

(pass by don't dare to stop)

got a suitcase in my hand
filled with stuff most precious to me
sidewalk brings my feet
wherever they're headed

There's no directions given
just some trust in human mind
to rely on and to hold on to
honestly don't know
where i'll end up at last
won't even count the days
one thing i'm sure know
i won't move so fast
my mind in complete haze

I pass by
don't dare to stop
when there's someone i see
there's no one here but me
i'm fooled by something inside my head
if i lay down now
i might seem kinda dead
just keep on wasting time

scary thoughts and frightening sounds
in my mind still i try to avoid it
heading through this hope not one way alley
i can't really sense my surroundings
seems to be all dark around
nothing there to lighten up my way
honestly don't know where i'll end up at last
won't even count the days
one thing I sure know
i won't move so fast
my mind is complete haze

i pass by
don't dare to stop
when there's someone i see
there's no one here but me
i'm fooled by something
inside my head
if i lay down now
i might seem kinda dead
just keep on wasting time

I walk slow in secret
listening to the sound of steps
imagination seems to go all crazy
I've got all the time I need
wanna dream fulfil my wishes
like this future already now been entered
i pass by
don't dare to stop
when there's someone i see
there's no one here but me
i'm fooled by something
inside my head
if i lay down now
i might seem kinda dead
just keep on wasting time

09   One Year Ago (04:34)

She's walking there alone
No one by her side
She manages to fight the tears
But the pain inside
She can't hide
And all the tears she's cried

The moment she closes her eyes
She starts thinking of you
The dreams that she had one time
Have gone away
Will they ever come true?
All she needs is...
All she needs is you

And she wishes today was one year ago
When you cared so much for her and loved her so
Not a doubt in her mind that it would still be you
'Cause the love that you shared
It was true

You never thought about it
What you made her feel
You promised you'd stay together
But the hope she once had...
So unreal
All she needs is...
All she needs is you

And she wishes today was one year ago
When you cared so much for her and loved her so
Not a doubt in her mind that it would still be you
'Cause the love that you shared
It was true

She's walking there alone
No one by her side
She manages to fight the tears
But the pain inside
She can't hide

And she wishes today was one year ago
When you cared so much for her and loved her so
Not a doubt in her mind that it would still be you
'Cause the love that you shared... it was true

And she wishes today was one year ago
When you cared so much for her and loved her so
Not a doubt in her mind that it would still be you
'Cause the love that you shared... it was true

10   A Place Nearby (04:10)

I entered the room
Sat by your bed all through the night
I watched your daily fight
I hardly knew
The pain
Was almost more than I could bear
And still I hear
Your last words to me

Heaven is a place nearby
So I won't be so far away
And if you try and look for me
Maybe you'll find me someday
Heaven is a place nearby
So there's no need to say goodbye
I wanna ask you not to cry
I'll always be by your side

You just faded away
You spread your wings, you had flown
Away to something unknown
Wish I could bring you back
You're always on my mind
About to tear myself apart
You have your special place in my heart
Always

Heaven is a place nearby
So I won't be so far away
And if you try and look for me
Maybe you'll find me someday
Heaven is a place nearby
So there's no need to say goodbye
I wanna ask you not to cry
I'll always be by your side

And even when I go to sleep
I still can hear your voice
And those words
I never will forget

Heaven is a place nearby
So I won't be so far away
And if you try and look for me
Maybe you'll find me someday
Heaven is a place nearby
So there's no need to say goodbye
I wanna ask you not to cry
I'll always be by your side