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Saturday, March 23, 2024

It's Just A Game....

 

From back in 1979 lyrics by Triumph.

 

Wizards of a modern age cast spells of electric power

But the corporate strings that make them dance

Lead up to an ivory tower

There sit the fates in solitude, far from the public eye

No one ever sees them smile and nothing makes them cry

Welcome to the kingdom, the land of bought and sold

A world of real-life fantasy where truths are seldom told

Try hard to remember all that glitters is not gold

You can pay the piper, but you cannot buy his soul

It's just a game, you're in it all the way

It's just a game, don't let yourself slip away

It's such a shame, I heard somebody say

It's just a game, and all I can do is play

What you do choose, now, what do you believe, now

Who are you gonna trust?

All you dreams and fancy schemes

Just crumble into dust

Calm and cool and computerized to calculate and collect

We wait and watch and wonder

Just which puppet they'll select

Like the moth, too near the flame,

Who learned his truth too late

We're all too deep into the game

That is the master of our fate

The poets and the pipers have got their motives

And you've got yours, no doubt

And so the game continues

That's what it's all about

It's just a game, you're in it all the way

It's just a game, don't let yourself slip away

It's such a shame, I heard somebody say

It's just a game, and all I can do is play

 

 


5 comments:

  1. See also:
    Tom Cochrane: Mad, Mad World (1991)
    Kansas: Sparks of the Tempest (1977)

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  2. The Emmets grew up across from our neighbourhood winter rink, with boards!! Christmas 1973 or 4 Russell, Ricks bro, came accross the street with his brand new goalie gear on, we were all warming up while he got ready in net. First slap shot by Butch Butler, RIP, best player/athlete in west T.O that time, hit Russ in the mask right between the eyes!! Gloves and stick went flying Russell bailed and ran across the road to his house, last time we ever saw him in goal!! Rick would play in our summer penny carnival, yes pennies, and blow our mind even then, all Zeppelin stuff on 12 string acoustic. Then he started at the summer Ex at the Bandshell, just outside the Better Living centre, again mostly Zep and Robin Trower etc, and his own stuff as well. Place would be packed with our neighbourhood crew, a tough but fun upbringing, the Junction Boys were in charge of the hood , and the Vagabonds had a clubhouse on my street. Those were the days!!!

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  3. Triumph was such an under rated band.
    There are a pile of songs out there conveying so much truth, it is scary.

    Leigh
    Whitehall, NY

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  4. Awesome power trio, been listening to them since the 70's.

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  5. Rush too from the same town, Alex Lifeson (Zivojenovich) High school bands both of them, with Rick Goddovitz too, Goddo if anyone remembers him!! MaxWebster as well. Kim Mitchells band Live music scene was incredible, All these guys could shred all night, great days in Toronto!!! El Mocambo!!

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