Play It as It Lays Lyrics

From a nervous breakdown

In a psych ward

She looks back on her life

Full of deep-cutting scars

"When I was young, I had reason to believe

That the next roll would be better than the last

Now there's no way I can believe this anymore

But I'm just saying how it happened in the past"

With her dead mom and dad

And acting career down the drain

And a divorce with a kid

she may never see again

Freeways and bars

And random lovers for the ride

But it all came crashing down

With her best friend's suicide

"When I was young, I had reason to believe

That the next roll would be better than the last

Now there's no way I can believe this anymore

But I'm just saying how it happened in the past"

"I am just who I am

The reasons why are just beside the point

But you keep asking me these questions

But the answer's 'nothing' all the same"

Well, I know what nothing means

Yet I keep on playing

"Why," you might ask?

"Why not," is what I'm saying