Owner of the Game

Verse 1

Left the screen light burning low

Checking messages you never meant to send

Counting every hollow minute

Waiting for the silence finally to end

Used to think your smiles were signs

Instead of just another jagged line

Tracing circles in my head

Regretting everything I ever said

Pre-Chorus

Pulled the string

Just to watch it snap

Built a house

Then you closed the trap

Chorus

You were playing solitaire while I was betting all I had

Trading true emotions for a feeling just as bad

Running round in maze paths that didn't have an exit door

Keep on chasing shadows till I cannot chase them anymore

I was the player

But you owned the game

Verse 2

Friday nights meant cold excuses

Words like maybe meant a million different ways

Spinning dials to find your station

Caught inside a hazy summer purple haze

Borrowed heartbeats never last

Discard the present just to kill the past

Broken parts are all I keep

Buried under secrets piling up so deep

Pre-Chorus

Locked the gate

Told me stay a while

Cut the deck

With a lucky smile

Chorus

You were playing solitaire while I was betting all I had

Trading true emotions for a feeling just as bad

Running round in maze paths that didn't have an exit door

Keep on chasing shadows till I cannot chase them anymore

I was the player

But you owned the game

Bridge

Scorecard shows a total zero

Trophies turned to rusted iron junk

High stakes for a fake hero

Letting every single anchor sunk

Chorus

You were playing solitaire while I was betting all I had

Trading true emotions for a feeling just as bad

Running round in maze paths that didn't have an exit door

Keep on chasing shadows till I cannot chase them anymore

I was the player

But you owned the game

Yeah you owned the game