Story Behind The Song
I got a new, powerful computer, full of wonderful, creative programs only to discover that I was using all my time playing a stone-age computer game on it. Meanwhile, someone had invented 'smart' bombs and the world was going down the dip.
Song Description
Computers can be used for all manner of things, not all of them constructive.
| Song Length |
2:28 |
Genre |
Folk - Alternative |
| Tempo |
Non 4/4 |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Troubled, Diplomatic |
Subject |
Computers, Existence |
| Language |
English |
Era |
2000 and later |
Lyrics
Just Another Game
© bo callaby 2005
He sits at his computer and plays, and the days
Go by
He spends his whole life in a haze,
Never stops to wonder why
He's had to stop working, his woman's left town
The friends he once had have all stopped coming round
He's indifferent to life all the same
It's just another game
He sits at his computer and dreams, it seems
He knows
That in spite of political schemes,
Corruption grows and grows
He presses his buttons and babies will cry
As terror-filled rockets rain out of the sky
But to him it's all the same
It's just another game
What happened to your vision, did life get too tough?
Did you give up on freedom, did you give up on love?
Would you rather have soma or power or fame
Would you rather just play the game?
He sits at his computer and knows, what goes
Up must come down
Mankind will reap all that it sows
The wheel goes around and around
We just keep on using to feather our nest
We'll carry on using 'til nothing is left
And no-one is to blame, it's all a crying shame
No, no-one is to blame
It's just another game