Have you ever wanted to change the lyrics of a song? I don’t believe I have until now. If you are familiar with Amy Winehouse’s song Love is a Losing Game you may understand what I mean in saying that it’s a beautiful tune but the lyrics absolutely break your heart. If you know Amy’s story you’ll know this is her swan song and that’s heartbreaking enough. I sat down the other day and wrote my own lyrics to Amy’s torch hymn. I believe they are a much more affirmative and positive approach to my own modern experience of love. I have put them up underneath a video of her singing the original with her lyrics. Mine are directly beneath. Give them the once over and then try it with the song. Let me know if you like the change. –The Castle Lady
For you, I was a flame
Love is a losing game
Five-storey fire as you came
Love is a losing game
One I wish I never played
Oh, what a mess we made
And now, the final frame
Love is a losing game
Played out by the band
Love is a losing hand
More than I could stand
Love is a losing hand
Self-professed, profound
'Til the chips were down
Though you're a gambling man
Love is a losing hand
Though I battle blind
Love is a fate resigned
Memories mar my mind
Love, it is a fate resigned
Over futile odds
And laughed at by the gods
And now the final frame
Love is a losing game.
Caught up in wild games
Love flick'ring like a flame
Chasing me, on you came
Love soon forgot its name.
One for which I often prayed
Oh what a mess you made
You never took the blame
Love hung its head in shame.
Then taken by the hand
Love made for me a stand
I just couldn't understand
Foolish became my brand.
In love ourselves we found
Our dance went round and round
Gambling got out of hand
Laid down the cards, the man.
Did I almost lose my mind?
Never was the loving kind
Learned love, learned time
Will heal all past design.
I bow while crowds applaud
My love was saved by God
In all I've lost or gained
Love is still what remains.
