Tesla - Games People Play Lyrics
All the games people play now, every night every day now
Never meaning what they say now, never saying what they mean
While they while away the hours in their ivory towers
Till they're covered up with flowers in the back of a black limousine
Cross our hearts and we hope to die, except the other was to blame
Either one will ever kill it, so we gaze and we make pretend
Thinkin' 'bout things that might have been, oh it's a dirty rotten shame
[Chorus:]
Ladandaladandadada, ladandaladandadadee
Talkin' 'bout you and me, and the games people play
Ladandaladandadada, ladandaladandadadee
Talkin' 'bout you and me, and the games people play
Sayin' what the hell's it to ya, if we do it in the name of the Lord
We're gonna teach ya how to meditate
(Preach our hearts from teacher's faith)
Put them on a hell of hate, come on, let's get on board
[Chorus]
[Solo]
Look around, tell me what you see, what's happening to you and me
Got burning my serenity, to the neighborhood at hand
'Cos you're givin' up your sanity, or your pride and your vanity
Turn your back on humanity, ow, when you don't give a damn, not a damn
Ladandaladandadada, ladandaladandadadee
Talkin' 'bout you and me, and the games people play
Ladandaladandadada, ladandaladandadadee
Talkin' 'bout everybody, talkin' 'bout you, 'bout you and me
(Ladandaladandadada) you and me, (ladandaladandadadee)
I'm talkin' bout the games, the games we all play
(Ladandaladandadada) ladanda, (ladandaladandadadee) ladandadadee
All the games, talkin' bout the games people play
(Ladandaladandadada, ladandaladandadadee)
(Ladandaladandadada, ladandaladandadadee)
(Ladandaladandadada, ladandaladandadadee)
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Tesla Games People Play Comments
When you don't give a damn, not a damn!!!
It's sad my comment is the latest....
Don't wen all know about the games we all play. I know i.m guilty of playing games myself.
Great song & the 80's = 😍❤🤘💏👼👿💣💟💌
It's ok to be Gr 💚💚n with envy if you didn't grow up in the 80's because I would've been highly pissed. Incomparable Era ! Thank God above for my experience & memories of this life !
Tesla is one of thw best bands ever
😅😅😅🤘🤘🤘🤘✌✌✌
🎼♥️♥️♥️🎼♥️♥️♥️🎼
Growing up in the 80's, I hated nearly every damn hair band I heard, but these guys had some good song writing, creative musicianship.... certainly better than most of their cohorts.
this is my theme song...
perfect
Point 8
Mm 808$$$$$
If I'm having a bad day, I turn too this song and I think wow shit ain't so bad, cause this song so true
yeah,,i no a lot of them on here,,
Best band period
The news of their demise could bring a smile.It aint too bad when there aint much left on the inside to play on.Nothings really a fucking suprise,is it.
The games people play are morally corrupt ...someone might get hurt ..ya know their feelings ... Careful
This is good but nothing even close to the Joe South vrrsion. My mom had his album when I was little and I played it to death!
AMEN!!!!!!!!!
I simply can't get enough of TESLA. I really named my Dauter. After the band.
I wanted to name my last daughter Tesla Rae!!😍
Hell yeah u the best player
I was searching for this song from a different singer only to coincide with this Tesla band and I'm not intending to look any further.
Wonderful....
WOW!! In the time of this song I wouldn't have given rat's ass about this song.
TESLA has the midas touch to make you go Hell Yeh! The day I came home with Mechanical Renaissance cassette went thru it, I had the same WOW!! Thank you to every member of TESLA!!! C U at House of Blues Orlando 2019!
😍😍😍
bad background. Can't see the lyric
After all these years I still love them
One of my favorite songs ever written. From South's original to The Georgia Satellite's to Tesla. I don't think, I've ever heard a bad cover. 💕💕💕💕
How the fuck can 84 people do t like this lol
Tesla was one of the best rock and roll bands ever, better than the Beatles.....
Pretty cool song 2018. Like it
frank hannon is the mastermind. for this band. I GET THE FEELING BOTH OF US COULD BE SHIPWRECKED ON AN ISLAND AND AFTER A YEAR OR 2 EVERYONE WOULD JUST SHOW UP AND IT WOULD BE A CORONA COMMERCIAL. LOL
I remember this song as a kid. Was looking for it on iTunes and stumbled on this version.
I love the way they stayed true to the original version with heavier guitars.
Bravo to Tesla for a great cover.
2018! Still a Great tune!
Amazing version...!
I listen to this just about everyday one of my favorites :) thanks too my mom
I like this version so much
Jeff Keith is awesome!!!
This the original buy Joe South and GEORGIA Satalite’s are stand alone greatest & greater
You know, it's hard to put a label on this band's music, but I really like this one.
My mom and sister got me listening to this song and i absoultulely love it
Lynne Michaud ,me to sweetie love everything they ever wrote well this is a cover song but it is the best version of the song ,any way Rock on Tesla!
They r a very good band, i listen this song everyday
Great song.
some people are full of shit...just saying..dont play games...just go
one spy I totally agree!!!
I totally agree sorry !!!oops spy didn't belong in there !!!
L Gonzalvez ..its kool....i just heard this song..reminded me of most men..especially the married ones...they seem to learn how to play head games..verry well...but...forget all to well...that some gals are smart...let the games begain...😁
with so mangy versions I wonder what this song would have sounded like if Nazareth sang it....
wow...just awsome
brain box.
아주 조아요
been trying to hear it again but the vid had been removed.
all brings back memories, what I'd give to go back...the late 70s, all the 80s, and half of the 90s.!!! Tesla, Warrant, Cinderella, Ratt, I was so lucky to grow up in those years....
man i agree with ya those were great years what i remember of them alot of drinking and drugs back then
drobert disotell I'd love to been able to be a teenager then . I was born in 1987
I grew up in the 90's...I miss Green Day
Same here! 👍
@Karen MabeThat's what son says he was born in 89 It was awesome!
there all some
If I were ever to get a tattoo ,I think itd be " I ❤️ Tesla "
Max Silver I'll go get one along with you!!
Yep I thought the same thing , let's go do it!
I think they did an awesome job covering this song, what else do you expect from such a great band as Tesla...
+Joe Bemis So FU ZION is fuck you Zion right?
Tesla one of the old time best times greatest
Alan Parson Projekt..Gary Numan
I AGREE WITH THAT, BEING UNDERATED.Every I mean, every song is absolutely, just awesome. Back in the days they are awesome and still to this day. Eevry day i search the web for new music but damn, i havent heard all the previous and thats what its all about, "FALLIN' APART" ILL ADMIT IT, THAT SONG KICKS MY ASS IN THE MOST HEART TUGING WAY I CAN DO NOTHING BUT CRY and i dont care who knows it, TESLA...KEEP KICKIN' THAT ASS!!!!!!!!!!
Tesla Possibly the most underrated band ever. Deserve way more recognition. Love all their tunes.
I totally agree witcha👍
As a person who loves rap they are the most underrated rock band ever I thank my father for showing me this
Damn straight,!
probably the most honest thing said on the net lol
All he did was play games
great Joe South song, but its always fun to hear how other singers cover it.
i love your father's song games people play. it just hit home
...'read your horoscope, cheat your fate'... => because 100% of newspaper-astrology is bullshit and fake ! - thank you for the song !!! ^v^
Elle assure cette reprise
Georgia Satellites version much better, note to YouTube when making band playlists include only that band
Georgia Satellites version much better
This is my dad's most famous song. Thanks to all of you with such nice things to say about it! He was one of a kind!
If these lyrics don't touch your heart, then you don't have one.
t grew up with tesla and still listen there music... they totly rock thank you for all the great music
Your dad was a prophet! God bless you!
You can't be serious. Joe South was your father? Then I do not need to tell you about all the other songs he wrote or his session guitar recordings for others such as A Franklin and Simon and Garfuncle. He was not really really great, but he was really great.
My favorite, nothing but LOVE
I wish everyone listened and understood this song. Its not the color of your skin. its the color of your heart.....
+edwin morse I wish you had listened to the song. It's about a man and a woman.
+JuStGrEaTfUl you might want to listen to it again yourself and I was talking about the underlying message was obviously has been lost on you because of your comment
+edwin morse It has nothing to do with race.
@JuStGrEaTfUl He never states that it's about a woman but about you and me and realizing we've been misled but also I'm talking to somebody that has a white power logo for their photo. once again for the last time.... the underlying message of the song is open to interpration. If we weren't so ignorant not to not take things for face value but looking at the center of lying to our faces and that are trying to mislead any single one of us. I don't expect you to understand where I'm coming from. So much for being grateful
Black hearted fake
Great cover!!! Joe would be proud of this!
Hell yes he would!
Joe South- Games people play.... original
ya people have a lot of nerve to play with people head
gooooooooooooooood song
man i love this song
wcrew97.... This cover was released on " Bust A Nut " Awesome album or CD
this version rocks!
one best song
A great cover. Tesla had that knack!
lmao i have to give her an A for effort.
well you should get bored more often, for all us TESLA freaks...haha! thx for bein bored! peace :)
Oh, sorry. I am not a native speaker of English, so I won't fully understand you if you omit some proposition. But, I'm fluent in Tesla's native language :P
haha! duh! well i didn't mean i actually personally KNEW him...knew OF him! that's the same year my both my parents were born. :p
lol, nikola tesla died in 1943 :P
aha, well i liked and knew nikola tesla, and the rest rhymed...so that was good enough for me to like it...see, platelet guy? haha!!! :p
Haha. But... how do you know what does the comment mean? =) No, my name has nothing to do with "code red". It's more about programming...
ooops! i meant i love your comment...but your name's still cool, too... is it like "code red!" or something? haha!
Oh, really? I love yours too.
What does code plasma mean??? I know what plasma is... just curious
i love your name!
RIGHT!?!?!?! ROCK ON MAN! peace :)
on behalf of all TESLA! freaks like me, THANKS for being bored! peace :)
Melissa Rester Tesla's never boring,they played the songs that made my life worth living , listening to them brought me back from some dark places,so rock on forever tesla,ohh yeah I love Tesla freak's,lol Peace!
Absolutely, Melissa Davis...TESLA is unbelievable!!!
Love this one !
it was released on A Peace of Time, which also covers I Love You by climax, and I'd love to change the world by Ten Years After, an awesome cover. It used to be available on emusic, but i guess they took it off.
will NEVER understand people who look up TESLA, and actually dislike it!!! they just don't get it...feel sorry for them. maybe someday, they'll see the light! can only pray for those sad, lost souls! peace : )
im here with idiots
im on the weird part of youtube again
nikola tesla izumio vesla
@xfuzionx You should get bored more often! LOL
This is the song that was playing when we got the phone call about my uncle commiting suicide. It is like him having the last say.......give me goose bumps!!!
@wiz9496 yeah, they made reggae version of this song
@reklaminis I remember hearing this song in the early '70's. Who's Inner Circle? Did they cover this song, too?
Ust luv this song !!!!!!
@reklaminis This is a cover of Joe South's "Games People Play".. Inner Circle was a cover also.. in my opinion this is a better cover of the song than Inner's.. but none compare to the original.
Is it original or cover of Inner Circle song?
There's no line about Horoscopes there, that one is Beat your heart, cheat your fate