Only a Game

About a Rubik's cube (from cassette tape)

But if you feel, as I do, that if it isn't one damn thing, it's another, here's another. Was stopping one ...ssen afternoon For paper and magazine, My attention was drawn to a riot of color, The loveliest, I've ever seen. All in the shape of a plastic cube Red and yellow and blue. "How lovely!", I cried. "What a clever design!" "Great, tell me, Sir, what does it do?" "That's easy", he said, as he handled my cash An' he dropped the cube into a sack. "Some of the colors you twist left or right, Some you twist forward, some back. Before very long, if you're clever at this, You've got all the colors the same And then if you like, you start over again, For it's fun and it's only a game. Only a game, only a game, I'm muttering under my breath. Only a game, only a game, Like dying is only dead. I talk to myself, as I walk down the street, Till ol' friends all cry "What a shame!", For he used to say "Hello!" and "How do you do?" All he says now is "Only a game". That night after dinner I settled myself Planning to watch some TV, Safe in the warmth of my favorite chair And the bosom of my family. Basking in fellowship, brimful of cheer I bid my child "Turn on the tube!" And as I was watching my favorite show, I carelessly picked up the cube. I twiddled it this way, I twiddled it that. "Haha, it's ... This is strange!" No matter, how often I twiddled this/its cube, The blasted thing don't seem to change. I felt myself growing, this light is bit warm, As I twisted and whirled and spun. They tell me, they found me there early next morn' I was screeming "I got nearly done!" Only a game... Well, somehow I got dressed and they drove me to work And a smow...ley came out of my haze, By a fierce ... It was talk... raise. The boss called me into his office at ten An' he said to me "Glad that you came, For I'm thinking of adding this toy to our line, It's fun and it's only a game." Well, I don't know, what happened, I don' want to know, I'll have all my life to repent. They say, I did something with that little cube That the boss was obliged to resent. And now I get visitors here in my room And they murmur "Poor man, what a shame, For he's twisting his ears and he's dwibbling his nose And he tells us, it's only a game." Sing it with me now! Only a game...