Stop playin', Mo   I'm gon' talk about these players   And we'll also talk about this game   Huh, this game   It's somethin' everybody wants to know about   But who's the victim   Is it the player   Or the one bein' played   Or simply this game, uh      Early in the morning, he waits by her door   But she's not there, 'cause she don't care, someone else she adores   And it's a quarter after midnight, the girl's by her phone   But he won't call and the tears fall, so she sleeps all alone      We're in a world that's a ball of confusion   When the feeling is gone, still we keep holding on   To love that is just an illusion   Get to the back of the line, love will call you in time      On a kaleidoscope of love   People go 'round and 'round in circles   Falling in love and feeling pain   But it's the player, not the game      See the parade of smiling faces   No masquerade can fade the shame   Too many tracks to hide the traces   But it's the player, not the game      It's not the game      I keep all my feelings in a dark deeper place   Never go there 'cause it's so rare true love shows its face   I stare out my window when I can't sleep at night   Many voices, many choices, but I know when it's right      We're in a world that's a ball of confusion   When the feeling is wrong, still we keep holding on   To love that is just an illusion   Fall to the back of the line, love will call you in time      On a kaleidoscope of love   People go 'round and 'round in circles   Falling in love and feeling pain   But it's the player, not the game      See the parade of smiling faces   No masquerade can fade the shame   Too many tracks to hide the traces   But it's the player, not the game      Blame it on the player   Foolish heart don't fall too fast   Not the game   Blame it on the player   Foolish heart don't fall too fast   Not the game      Blame it on the player   Foolish heart don't fall too fast   Not the game   Blame it on the player   Foolish heart don't fall, don't fall   Not the game      On a kaleidoscope of love   People go 'round and 'round in circles   Falling in love and feeling pain   But it's the player, not the game      See the parade of smiling faces   No masquerade can fade the shame   Too many tracks to hide the traces   But it's the player, not the game      On a kaleidoscope of love   People go 'round and around   Feeling pain, yeah, yeah   But it's the player, not the game      Yeah, yeah   Don't you know that we go 'round - We go around   Every day, all day, seven days   But it's the player, not the game      On a kaleidoscope of love   People go 'round and 'round in circles   Falling in love and feeling pain   But it's the player, not the game      See the parade of smiling faces