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Life In Gameland

from A Man Who Was Here by Greg Segal

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I decided to record this at the end of the first day, when we had time left over after doing drum tracks for everything else. I hadn't counted on being able to do this one, so I hadn't rehearsed any of the tracks for close to 3 months before I recorded them. Surprisingly, it came out just fine. This is one of my oldest songs, written in high school. There's a great primitive mono-cassette dub version of this, which I will release someday.

lyrics

A youth misspent by not joining the crowd
Refuse to play games and you're not allowed

But that's how it goes
Yeah that's how it goes
Oh that's how it goes
That's life in gameland

Learn for yourself? Why what do you mean?
Don't you know that we need you to feed our machines?

But that's how it goes
Yeah that's how it goes
Oh that's how it goes
That's life in gameland

We'll make sure your head is made out of wood
And we'll make you dig ditches like itinerants should

Or we'll turn you into pigeons
that can walk a figure-eight
We'll control all your emotions,
tell you what to love or hate and it's a

Blissful existence if you just play along
We'll have your mind to build on if you just play along
We'll waste your whole life for you if you
just play along

Please let us waste your time
Please let us waste your mind

Please
Please
Please.....

A youth misspent by not joining the crowd
Refuse to play games and you're not allowed

But that's how it goes
Yeah that's how it goes
Oh that's how it goes
That's life in gameland

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from A Man Who Was Here, released March 19, 2014
Lyrics & music: '81. Instruments: drums, guitar, 8-string bass, vocals

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