Music by Edgar Arens
Lyrics by Johnny Blue Star
Copyright 2009 Edgar Arens and Johnny Blue Star
REFRAIN 1
Your shadow mocks the brazen breeze
I sense you near and slowly freeze
Tempted by your lips and your touch,
The cup of you is way too much
I drink from you in sleep, in dreams
And mourn your loss in muffled screams
Which seize the sweetness from the dawn
And build new worlds with shadows spawn
PRECHORUS
No golden pharaoh from the Nile
Could dare eclipse your cryptic smile?
CHORUS 1
Laughter turned to morbid sighs
Desperate games of love and lies.
Desperate games. Desperate games
I’m not ashamed to take the blame
Why do I play these desperate games?
REFRAIN 2
I loathe each moment you are gone
Each minute makes me more your pawn
Encased in time’s gray, painful shroud
The aftershocks of loss shriek loud
I miss you now, asleep, awake
With every breath I ever take
You’ve tied me with a velvet sash
My heart is strong, but can it last?
PRECHORUS
No golden pharaoh from the Nile
Could dare eclipse your cryptic smile?
CHORUS 2
Laughter turned to morbid sighs
Desperate games of love and lies.
Desperate games. Desperate games
I’m not ashamed to take the blame
Why do I fool with desperate games?
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