Snakes and Ladders

Back when I was young, I used to love playing SNAKES AND LADDERS, even if I'd get unbelievably frustrated when I'd be a few steps from winning and then somehow wind up on a snake that would take me right back to the start.Back then I played for fun. Now I played to win, but I lost.

I absolutely love Joss Stone and this song has become the soul version of Gloria Gaynor's disco (ewww!) "I will survive". As cheesy as it is, it gets me through the day. It reminds me I did what I had to do.

SNAKES AND LADDERS
In the game of love
It takes all you got
Just to keep it moving up
Don't you wanna reach the top
But heaven seems such a crazy dream
If your heart has room for doubt
You're neither in you're neither out

99 1/2 it just won't do
You gotta give me all of you
Not asking too much of a heart that's true
So tell me...

[Chorus]
What's the name of the game that we are playing
But whenever I think that we are winning
Then you roll the dice take a slide
Right back to the one from 99

Is it gonna go on like this forever?
Are we gonna to take that last step together?
Going round and round and up and down
Feels just like snakes and ladders

Baby don't it feel like a carousel?
Where all the world is rushing by
But when it stops you realize
That you're right back where you started at
I need a little more than that
It´s time for us to face the facts

Whether to be or not to be
That is the question so it seems
We're going nowhere in between So tell me...

Don't wanna play this game no more
I gotta know right now for sure
What am I giving my heart for?
Baby I need a little more
Don't leave me hanging on a string
Now that I gave you everything

Not when I play to win Snakes and ladders

Joss Stone