The Game Chords
The Game by Echo and The Bunnymen is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords F, C, G and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: F C F C G C G
C
A sense of duty was my one intention
G
And an ugly beauty was my own invention
C
Pride a proud refusal
G
And i refuse to need your approval
C
Too many seekers too few beacons
G
But through the fog we'll keep on beaming
F
Through the crying hours of your glitter years
C
All the living out of your tinsel tears
F
And the midnight trains i never made
C
'cos i'd already
G C G
Played...the game
C
Everybody's got their own good reason
G
Why their favorite season is their favorite season
C
Winter winners and those summers sons
G
Aren't good for everyone
Aren't good for everyone
C G
Spring has sprung and autumns well done so well done
F
And it's a better thing that we do now
C
Forgetting everything the whys and hows
F
While you reminisce about the things you miss
C
You won't be ready
G C
To kiss...goodbye
C D G 2x
C
The earth is a world
D
The world is a ball
G
A ball in a game with no rules at all
C
And just as i wonder
D
At the beauty of it all
G
You go and drop it and it breaks and falls
F
I'll never understand why you thought i would
C
Need to be reassured and be understood
F
When i always knew that your bad's my good
C
And i was ready
G C
Ready...to be loved
G C G
C G
Born under mars with jupiter rising
C G
Fallen from stars that lit my horizon
F
I'll never understand why you thought i would
C
Need to be reassured and be understood
F
When i always knew that your bad's my good
C
And i was ready,
G
Ready...to be
0 F
Through the crying hours of your glitter years
C
All the living out of your tinsel tears
F
And the midnight trains I never made
C
'cos i'd already
G
Played
F
It's a better thing that we do now
C
Forgetting everything the whys and hows
F
While you reminisce about the things you miss
C
You won't be ready
G C
To kiss...goodbye