Played

Friends for years
frontin' and flirtin'
teasin' and tauntin'
then space and separation
as different schools
led to different paths

when I met him
you returned
now playin' the jealous one
the scheming love
mumbling whispers to my friends
about how my love
was tormenting your soul
how my new life
had left you behind

what the hell?

I was naive enough
to be flattered, then
grown enough
to be offended, now
a game
a test to
see if you could beat him
at something, sometime
could you take away his girl
the first one he
actually loved

you had no feeling for me
just manhood ego
tied to winning some
nameless game
but the only one playin'
was you.