Pawns In Their Game - Grant Abbott

It starts with the ones who mean well.
The ones who show up, do their best, and play by the rules.

The ones who believe that if they just stay honest, stay kind, and work hard, the system will treat them fairly.

But what happens when the rules keep changing, made up on the spot, bent sideways in silence, or enforced only against the ones who still believe in them?

Pawns in Their Game is a song for those who keep trying in good faith, only to discover that the deck was stacked long before they arrived.

It’s about the circles where accountability disappears, where truth becomes a matter of opinion, and where power hides behind charm, policy, or procedure.

It's the:
Friend who twists the story just enough to shift the blame.
Colleague who smiles while setting the trap.
Family member who rewrites the past to make themselves the victim.
Quiet manipulation that turns good people into scapegoats while the real players stay unseen.

Whether it be your private relationships, employment relationships, municipal councils, school houses, or other relationships, it’s all the same.
It’s about the manipulation of relationships and the absence of accountability.
We ride on their whim, not on logic or agreed-upon rules; it’s liquid and unjust.

Someone always benefits from confusion, and the loudest voice isn’t always the most honest, just the most protected.

The song follows that realization, the slow awareness that the chaos around you isn’t random; it’s designed.

“The conflict was never real,
it’s just their stage,
designed to drain your strength
and inspire your rage.”

It’s not about fighting harder; it’s about waking up.
It’s about stepping back and seeing the illusion for what it is: a stage built to drain your energy, test your patience, and provoke your reaction.

Once you see the game, you can’t play it the same way again.

You start to move differently.
You stop reacting and start observing.
You find calm in the clarity that truth doesn’t need defense; it reveals itself in time.

For anyone who has ever been gaslit, undermined, misrepresented, or manipulated into silence, or those who have watched integrity lose to influence but kept their soul intact, this song is for you.

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