Adele
Love Is a Game lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2021
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 6:44
All your expectations of my love are impossible
Surely, you know
That I'm not easy to hold
It's so sad how incapable
Of learning to grow I am
My heart speaks in puzzle and codes
I've been trying my whole life to solve
God only knows how I've cried
I can't take another defeat
A next time would be the ending of me
Now that I see
That love is a game for fools to play
And I ain't fooling (Fooling)
What a cruel thing (Cruel thing)
To self-inflict that pain
Love is a game for fools to play
And I ain't fooling again (Fooling)
What a cruel thing (Cruel thing)
To self-inflict that pain
How unbelievable (Unbelievable)
Of me to fall for the lies that I tell? (Lies I tell)
The dream that I sell (Dream I sell)
When my heartache, it's inevitable (Inevitable)
But I'm no good at doing it well
Not that I care (I don't care)
Why should anything about it be fair?
When love is a game for fools to play
And I ain't fooling (Fooling)
What a cruel thing (Cruel thing)
To self-inflict that pain
Love is a game for fools to play
And I ain't fooling again (Fooling)
What a cruel thing (Cruel thing)
To self-inflict that pain
No amount of love
Can keep me satisfied (Satisfied, satisfied)
I can't keep up (I can't keep up, I can't keep up)
When I keep changing my mind
(Change my mind, change my mind)
The feelings flood me to the heights of no compromise
Love is a game for fools to play
And I ain't fooling (Fooling)
What a cruel thing (Cruel thing)
To self-inflict that pain
Love is a game for fools to play
And I ain't fooling (Fooling)
What a cruel thing (Cruel thing)
To self-inflict that pain
Oh you know, I'd do it all again
I love it now like I loved it then
I'm a fool for that
You know I'm, you know I'm gonna do it
Oh-oh-oh-oh
I'd do it all again, like I did then
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Key vocabulary
- surely
- certainly; without doubtB1
- i'm
- I amC2
- hold
- keep in your handsA2
- it's
- it is (contraction)A1
- incapable
- unable to do
- puzzle
- a confusing problemB2
- i've
- I have
- can't
- cannotB1
- defeat
- win againstB2
- fools
- silly peopleB2
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About this song
Adele Adkins is a British singer-songwriter known for her pop and soul-inflected music and distinctive mezzo-soprano voice. She rose to prominence with the albums 19 and 21, then continued with 25 and 30, anchoring modern adult contemporary with emotionally driven ballads and powerhouse vocals.