“The Game (I Can’t Win)” is a song recorded by the Lonesome River Band, the Virginia bluegrass group, on one of its mid-1990s albums.
The song treats love as a game with the deck stacked against the singer. However he plays it, he loses; the lyric is the weary admission of a man who keeps trying at a game he knows he cannot win.
The Lonesome River Band built a strong reputation on hard-driving sound and well-chosen songs.