The Con
By Tom Baker © 2008

You always were so careful
Always in control
You always worked the angles
Always in the know
You sleep with one eye open
Always on the prize
You had the perfect cover
Then you robbed it blind

There's a cost to keeping distance
Is this who you want to be?

For tonight let's leave it all behind

We're playing chess, not checkers
There always is a pawn
We're wearing poker faces
Am I the only one?
You say it doesn't matter
And while we're here we're free
But all this incognito
Really isn't me

There's a cost to keeping distance
Are we who we choose to see?

For tonight let's leave it all behind

Have we really made our choices?
Are we lost inside a maze?
If you can't help hearing voices
Does it matter what they say?

For tonight let's leave it all behind