my broken heart won t play gentle with my mind so every night i find myself thinking of you but i m only playing games i bet my heart against my brain and every time i lose in all your songs you sang of leaving yet my heart kept me believing that by some stroke of luck you might stay somewhere our flame lingers on but it no longer keeps me warm for you are gone love is so far away and now your memory is black and white how sentimental and how trite of me to paint your picture this way but in this dark and lonely room no shade can quite match these blues so i ll let all the colors fade to gray my broken heart won t play gentle with my mind so every night i find myself thinking of you but i m only playing games i bet my heart against my brain and every time i lose so on this barstool here i sit with all the candles dimly lit while the jukebox plays all the wrong songs and i wonder if these tunes do the same thing to you for i m lost in my head before long i know i told you i don t cry but honey you know that s a lie so in my dreams you re wiping my eyes then you ll ask me for this dance and for another second chance but then i wake only to find  my broken heart won t play gentle with my mind so every night i find myself thinking of you but i m only playing games i bet my heart against my brain and every time i lose oh every time i lose