JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "Name of the Game" merupakan salah satu lagu yang terdapat dalam album Straight Up milik Badfinger.
Album tersebut dirilis pada 1971 dengan membawa 12 buah lagu pada versi orisinalnya.
Pada 2010, album Straight Up milik Badfinger di-remaster dan dihadirkan di berbagai platform musik digital.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Apple of My Eye - Badfinger
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "Name of the Game" dari Badfinger.
A A A
A Bm F#m C#m
I saw the railway master and I looked him in the eye
D A G D
I said, "Would you go much faster if you thought that you would die?"
A Bm F#m C#m
He said, "Not me, sir, I could not care, in fact I would not try
D A
Protest would not take me far
G D
It's different, me not being a star"
B G D A
I lock my feelings in a jar until another day
A Bm F#m C#m
Oh, comfort me, dear brother, won't you tell me what you know?
D A F D
Somewhere in this paper world is a place where I can go
A Bm F#m C#m
Oh, long awaiting mother, is it time to make a show?
D A
And take your babies to your breast
G D
No, we never passed the test
B G D A
All our sins should be confessed before we carry on
E Bm
Oh, don't refuse me
G D A
If you choose me, you follow my shame
E Bm
No, don't confuse me
G D A
For I know it's the name of the game
A Bm F#m C#m
Got up off my pillow and I looked up at the sun
D A G D
Said, "You can see quite clearly now the things that we have done
A Bm F#m C#m
We burned your sacred willow and our battles we have won
D A
But did we get so very far?
G D
It's different, me not being a star"
B G D A
I lock my feelings in a jar until we go away
E Bm
Oh, don't refuse me
G D A
If you choose me, you follow my shame
E Bm
No, don't confuse me
G D A
For I know it's the name of the game
E Bm
Oh, don't refuse me
G D A
If you choose me, you follow my shame
E Bm
No, don't confuse me
G D A
For I know it's the name of the game
E Bm G D A
E Bm G D A
E Bm G D A
E Bm G D A