Mini-Essay: For the Love of the Game

test paper from Wild Honey from the Moon

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.