Mini-Essay: For the Love of the Game

test paper from book #4

There are those who play for money, babe,
there are those who play for fame,
there are still those who only play for the love of the game.

That is T-Bone Burnett, from the song Killswitch. The name doesn’t seem right for such a beautiful song, but I have never been able to understand what the song is about.  The concluding lines that I quote above fit so well with the music, I never mind not understanding the rest of the words. It serves as a good reminder for me that the only lasting pleasure that can be had from work of any kind is the work itself.