Here’s the opening track from Happy Hour by Boy Girl Party. Eventually we’ll have the entire album up online via the RPM Challenge site. For now, you can actually find a few of them on this website (Can’t Sleep, Invasion, Magazine, Hygiene) or Mel’s Myspace.
lyrics
You can play your life
Like a child’s game
Play it set by set
Play it frame by frame
You can get your licks
On the city’s dime
People pay to see country boys bleed
They do it every night
I said I’m goin I’m goin I’m goin
I said I’m goin I’m goin I’m goin
I said I’m goin I’m goin I’m goin
I said I’m goin I’m goin I’m gone
You can entertain
With your famous smile
You can play it safe
Claim a fear of flight
And when the dining comes
Yeah when the crime scene’s ripe
They’ll cut the belly of the city open
And you’ll see your device
Chorus
Ooo
You can play your life
Like a child’s game
Win it set by set
Lose it frame by frame
You can spill you guts
Market the crime
But the only one who laughs in the end
Is the one who kills the lights
Chorus
There’s no one ever right
When there’s nowhere left to go
We’re not all birds of flight
And we’ve got a song that goes
And it goes
Ooo
credits
from Singles 2010,
released December 31, 2010
Music and lyrics by Mattroi
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