Blind Man's Bluff

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While doing a lyric for a Music Production class, I was looking through a rhyming dictionary for a near-rhyme to the word love and came across Blind Man's Bluff. I immediately saw how the children's game with a blindfolded child trying to catch hold of kids around him/her could be a metaphor for single people trying to reach out for love but being thwarted by the masks and facades people where. I sort of hear this as a country song; it's too honest for anything else. I included a musical piece of the song which was my homework assignment.

Blindly back and forth I chase Some pretty girl’s façade Instead of finding truth and grace Each time a charade Seems like Blind man's Bluff's my game- Always seek, never find. Places and faces change, life's still the same Despair fills my mind. (chorus) I'm tired of playing Blind Man's Bluff, Chasing someone I cannot see. I want a gal who believes in love, Who'll commit to me, Who'll commit to us. I'll keep on playing Blind Man's Bluff. I've gone to far to quit. I'll go on because I believe in love- Ready to commit.

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