Play It As It Lays Lyrics

So you think that you can live a life with style

Rats are seething in a mass atop a pile

And it takes everything, everything you got

But we're you joking when you tried to take your shot

Play it as it lays

My friend is what I'd say

Just like cinema verité

Play it as it lays

The obsidian place

With no windows, wearing mirrored shades

Give Cora a kiss for me

Crossing the water I thought I saw you, hovering

Play it as it lays

My friend is what I'd say

To the tune of rabelais

Play it as it lays

I am no judge of poetry

Still I implore ya to give Cora a kiss from me

You say that we must simplify from time to time

Like a leading player in the wings, working on her lines

Play it as it lays

Here at the end of days

Comedian with a tragic grace

Play it as it lays

Now you're in the money maze

The labyrinth walls are grey

I can see it written on your face

Play it as it lays