Long Game

[Verse]

Nineteen at the bar

With a nylon-string guitar

And ten friends in the crowd

Two drink tickets down

Speeding off on a bike

In the middle of the night

Invincible feeling

Jagged lines on the ceiling

Paint job in my room

Someone should've said

'That kid needs a vacuum'

But it sure as hell wasn't you

You were putting up a curtain

In my moldy bathroom

Bringing a pizza by

Telling two truths, one lie

I really wanted to believe ya

I really wanted to see ya

[Verse]

Friday staying out

Lying on Destiny's couch

Throwing down about love

Burned copy of The Best Of...

Early to the fall

Playing POP Montreal

I wanted to make it a good one

I wanted to make it count

I was still having fun

Worshipped my idols and wanted to be one

We were all listening to Neil Young

You said your favourite record was Zuma

I always took you and your sense of humour

To end with your hand in mine

To end with our love in mine

It was our love

[Bridge]

And coming out of it unscathed was impossible

I changed, wasn't mystified in the same ways anymore

[Chorus]

It's a long long game to play

(long long game)

When you're learning the hard way

(long long game)

It's a long long game to play

(long long game)

It's a long long game to play

(long long game)

It's a long long game to play

(long long game)

When you're learning the hard way

(long long game)

It's a long long game to play

(long long game)

It's a long long game to play

(long long game)

[Verse]

Greyhounds and trains, memorizing people's names

Sleeping where there was a bed or a couch

And when I was home riding my green bike past your house

When your car was loaded in the driveway and you were pulling out

I always expected you to go

But I didn't think you'd call me from L'Île-Perrot

Barely out of town when you stopped and phoned

You said you wouldn't turn around but it was hard to go

We moved too fast when it could have been slow

Got too high, cue the crushing low

Now I've been everywhere, I'm Hank Snow

I could have let it die, I guess I never grow

[Chorus]

It's a long long game to play

(long long game)

When you're learning the hard way

(long long game)

It's a long long game to play

(long long game)

It's a long long game to play

(long long game)

It's a long long game to play

(long long game)

When you're learning the hard way

(long long game)

It's a long long game to play

(long long game)

It's a long long game to play

(long long game)

[Outro]

More doing, less trying

(long long game)

More truth, less lying

(long long game)

More breathing, less sighing

(long long game)

More fun, less crying

(long long game)

More doing, less trying

(long long game)

More truth, less lying

(long long game)

More breathing, less sighing

(long long game)

More living, less dying