Those Games We Played lyrics
Lyrics for Those Games We Played
Answering Machine- "Hey wassup, you've reached CoreUnit. If your message doesn't end in bling or bitches, don't bother leavin' one."
Hey, yo, what up C? It's your boy, GStar. Come on, pick up the phone. Pick up the phone, man, we know you're there, talk to us. Core? ...Core?!
JP
Once we were suppose to be leet,
Rappin' bout Commodores, pretendin' to be street.
But what's underneath? We claim to pack heat,
But it's loss that makes 64 complete.
Though we claim to know rightly,
Claim we're the ones that beat bosses nightly,
But inside we're just wound so tightly,
And our success, you know, it hasn't come lightly.
Sometimes I wonder what he would say, if he were here.
I wonder if he'd forgive us, all the years
That we scoffed at his fears, his eyes filled with tears,
As we popped in a disc to bring on the cheers.
And it sears in my chest when I think what we've done.
With the four of us together, what we could've become.
There's a place and a time to put down the lightgun,
CoreUnit's game was over before it even begun. Tray!
Ice Tray
We knew it was a dangerous thing,
We thought we were safe, we thought we were kings - immune.
We imagined like Sonic with rings
We could take one hit and not feel a thing.
And we could, but not Core, no he got himself lost
Down a fat, green warp pipe he found himself tossed away.
Cause we played not knowing the cost,
Till he crashed and burned out in a trail of exhaust.
TMai
All those games that we played
All those games that we played
Ice Tray
Began to act suspicious when he went to the store,
Brown paper bags began a walk in the door.
His girl's on the phone, throat raspy and sore,
Sayin' "Where's Core gone, I don't know him anymore!"
And still we did nothin', just played Super Smash,
He stopped goin' to work, started bummin' for cash.
We thought he's just playin, he'll be back in a flash,
But really we were playing, we let our bro crash.
GStar
Core was the man who penned 60's first rhymes,
He mixed all the beats, and he helped us keep time.
He was our bro, but when he started crossing the lines
We didn't try to stop him, didn't act on the signs.
Flat on his back, eyes bloodshot and rolling.
Panic stricken face, beyond all consoling.
Hands feelin' shaky, his mind not controlling
And still he needs a fix, he's desperate and trolling.
Let him fall in with the wrong type of crew,
hustlers and gangsters looking for their due.
Never once admitted everything that we knew,
We hid behind shades, obscured our own view.
Never knew, never thought, we was so close to the end,
We didn't realize that he was 'roundin a bend.
And soon he would be gone, we just tried to pretend
That it was all okay- and we lost a true friend.
TMai
All those games that we played
All those games that we played
Ice Tray
It was dark on the night that we went to his room,
We knew that if we waited that the end would come soon.
We wanted to help, but didn't know what to do.
He was so far gone we thought for sure he was doomed to be
Another stat on the Six O' Clock News,
Another MC torn apart by his booze.
We didn't want that, weren't gonna let C lose,
We kicked in his door to bring him back to his crew.
GStar
He sat in the chair, frame still as in death,
His body thin, anemic, and hunger on his breath.
A headset on his face, volume making him deaf,
And a DragonKin instance in the Burning Steppes.
He didn't look up, stayed glued to the screen,
Acne on his face, sweat congealing in beads.
His laundry on the floor, and on his body, unclean.
We pulled the plug on him and he started to scream -
JP
That we were done, he was over with our crap quartet,
That we'd stopped him from completing his new FrostFire set.
We were noobs, unlike his new friends on the net,
That he'd face pull our moms and /dance 'em with a S.N.E.S. (Sexy Night Elf Stripper)
That was it, when we checked the next day he was gone,
Our brightest star burned out before his very first dawn.
If only we'd been there to take his problems head-on
We'd still have our bro, now all we've got is this song.
TMai
All those games that we played
All those games that we played
Transcribed by Mistyladybug