Akala – A Game Named Life Lyrics
Lyrics
Verse 1
- A game named life where fools make the rules
- And poets paint pictures with words that change nothing
- Survival of the fittest they say, are they sure?
- Or just the survival of those with the will to kill more?
- The heart that thinks itself purely, surely is not hungry?
- Because hungry knows too well, the world is fuckery
- And nature is indifferent to the suffering of infants
- That think ourselves growing human beings and something special
- But as fate would have it, I ain't buying the idea of fate
- It seems we shape every place that we grace with hate
- Depending which side of the fence or which epoch
- You die a slow death or be singing from the treetops
- Praise for the status quo, cus you're comfortable
- Those who lost out in this lottery, ha, fuck 'em all
- Nice with this roll of the dice, I'm quite proud and
- I don't know if we will ever roll another time round
Hook - Mai Khalil
- It's a game named life
- In a game named life
- In a game named life
- In a game named life
- In a game named life
- Where the dice decide where I go
- There I go, in a game named life
- I dream to be let go
Verse 2
- A game named life, where fools make the rules
- And poets paint pictures with words that change nothing
- Young child soldier, revolver not bluffing
- In a game that teaches children to kill but can't love them
- What is the journey of a bullet from the ground until we pull it?
- A piece of earth made blow holes in souls
- I'd like to know does a child choose in its mother's core or before as just a sperm to be born in war?
- Does another sperm choose greatness floating in his father's pleasure?
- Or does the game only begin when the umbilical's severed?
- Is that the reason babies born screaming?
- Because they know they left the spirit world
- To live here with no meaning among demons
- That see them as nothing more than chess pieces
- In a game named life where even the winners stop breathing
- And the whole thing is as tedious as a tale that is told twice
- We clone life but don't even own our own life
Hook - Mai Khalil
- It's a game named life
- In a game named life
- In a game named life
- In a game named life
- In a game named life
- Where the dice decide where I go
- There I go, in a game named life
- I dream to be let go
Bridge - Mai Khalil
- Sacrifice, pain and strife
- The game named life is over
- Before we even know
Verse 3
- Life is a mirror always looking at you
- It's not what we say or think, we are just what we do
- With the time that is given it comes with no ribbon
- Because life is not a gift to everyone that's living
- Most of the moves are made before you took your first go
- Some got a huge head start before their first role
- So you could play with more skill than the other players
- They will still be head because the past generations
- Accumulated spaces so they could practice with acres
- Illuminated arrangements so they could manage retainers
- Are you foolish? They ain't racing we're chasing the pay slip
- So they have won before even the game starts unless we change it
- To another set of rules different from the fools
- But to do that we are going to have to use their tools
- And therein lies our greatest dilemma
- In this game named life, who's playing it better?
Hook - Mai Khalil x2
- It's a game named life
- In a game named life
- In a game named life
- In a game named life
- In a game named life
- Where the dice decide where I go
- There I go, in a game named life
- I dream to be let go