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ABOUT THE SONG: GIVING THE GAME AWAY (THE AGE OF MELANCHOLIA)
I have several friends, colleagues and family members who are religious, vegetarian, vegan, or hold on to some fervent belief.
I can’t say I feel that level of commitment to any particular religion or way of life. I take each day as it comes and retain what I consider a healthy level of cynicism about all ‘solutions’ to the human condition.
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HOWEVER, HOLDING THIS POINT OF VIEW CAN PUT YOU AT ODDS WITH PEOPLE YOU WOULD OTHERWISE FEEL VERY COMFORTABLE WITH.

Family who you love, colleagues you respect and friends you admire have to be carefully steered away from their desire to proselytise or, as is more often the case, I remain careful in my conversations always allowing them to have their conscience and beliefs, but retaining a quiet dignity about my own.

On one level I covet their certitude, but on the other I am quite happy to question everything and continue the search for meaning in my own way without giving the game away.

LYRICS
When all your friends are close to God
Does it make you strange, does it make you odd?
Sometimes the truth doesn’t sound quite right
It unsettles you as well it might.
So don’t play the fool,
Losing your head and breaking the rules,
Don’t lose your cool by giving the game away.
You think in verse you dream in prose
You talk like a book, every sentence flows
These sixty years oh you’ve had your fun
Squandered your time when there’s work to be done
Dim the lights don’t sleep at night
Hard of hearing losing sight.
Visions are much clearer in your head
Pocket match light Monkey fires
Burning bright like silver spires
Red and Gold, and Blue and Grey they sway.
Sometimes it pays to wait but everything’s lost if you leave it too late.
Andrew Higgins ©
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