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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.

Blind Man's Bluff

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.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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