…And Gameplay For All

Look around our lives, an empty wasteland
We try to fill it with whatever we can

Work, work, work our lives away
Just hoping for some gameplay

The Gameplay, we try to pass the time
The Gameplay, looking for something greater
Gameplay, looking for nothing at all

Politics, for the facade of change and importance
To feel a part of world events

Sports, so we can create drama from paid competition
To feel a part of the team

Nothing really happens, it’s all contrived
Little stories we tell that make up our lives

Press the mindless button called “life”
Do or don’t, there is still war and strife

The Gameplay, we try to pass the time
The Gameplay, looking for something greater
Gameplay, looking for nothing at all

Books, for alternate realities to escape into
And ideas we’re too stupid to think of

Video games, a subculture pawn to Moore’s Law
Craving gameplay for replay value

Gameplay, so many more than can be said
Mostly invisible to us in our heads

Every second of our lives we spend
Just trying to make it to the end

The Gameplay, we try to pass the time
The Gameplay, looking for something greater
Gameplay, looking for nothing at all

Religion, for the truely desperate among us
Guides to your lives, all claiming truth

TV and Movies, raising a generation on false values
Acting reduced to mere speaking of lines

The Gameplay, to fill the void in ourselves
The Gameplay, to be the void to kill the pain
Gameplay, to be nothing at all