Love Is Just A Game
Joe Lyrics

Love is just a game
The concept of love is seen as a trivial, meaningless game

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Telling you)
Emotional emphasis on the previous statement

You can't keep doing this shit
You cannot continue treating me this way

Oh, oh, love is just a game
Reiteration that love is seen as a trivial game

Oh, listen, babe (Love is just a, love is just a...)
Affirmation that love is not a serious matter

Quit playing around like it's a game
Stop treating love as if it is a game

You tell me to go, you tell me to stay
Mixed signals about wanting to continue the relationship

Living with you is emotional
Being with you is an emotional experience

Roller coaster ride, like you're just gone and hide
The relationship feels like an unpredictable roller coaster ride where you disappear at times

Crossing the T's, and dotting the I's
Making an effort to improve the relationship

Trying to make it work, but you won't let me
Despite the effort, you don't reciprocate

It's like you're fighting with yourself
It feels like there is an internal struggle within you

But, baby, I can tell that you really don't wanna leave
Despite the mixed signals, you really want to keep the relationship intact

Love is a game to you, I see
You only see love as a meaningless game

But it means a lot more to me
Love is important to me and I take it seriously

To ride it out when the going gets rough
To hold on during difficult times

Then she closed the first real love
Maybe this was your first serious relationship?

Can't keep playing around with me
You can't continue this pattern of sending mixed signals and treating love as a game

If you really don't want me to leave
If you want me to stay and really care for me

If love is a game, then I don't wanna play
I don't want to be part of this meaningless game

'Cause there's someone out there for me
I believe there is someone else out there for me

Heard you were on the phone just the other day
I heard you talking to your friends about our relationship

Talking to your girls, telling you that I'm leaving
You're sharing our problems with others

If you didn't mean it, then why did you say it?
Why would you joke about me leaving if you didn't want that to happen?

This love thing ain't a game to me
I take this relationship and love seriously

I'm packing my bags; here I go again
I'm getting ready to leave the relationship

Wanna kick me out? OK, well, I'm leavin'
If you want me out, I am leaving

And with those shorties came, so, baby, tell me
What will happen to our children if we split up?

What's it gonna be?
What will our future look like?

I'm so tired of all the fussing, and the fighting
I am drained from all the arguments and disagreements

We can't keep just going on this way
We cannot continue to hold on to a relationship that's not working

So tired, babe, and angry
I'm emotionally exhausted and angry

You keep hurting me over and over again
You have been causing me pain repeatedly

You making me wanna leave
All of this is making me want to give up on the relationship

You don't understand just what you're doing to me
You don't realize the effect your actions are having on me

Maybe we're not meant to be
Perhaps we're not compatible or right for each other