| "The Game" | |
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| Song by Poets of the Fall | |
| from the album Clearview | |
| Released | September 30, 2016 |
| Length | 4:45 |
| Label | Insomniac |
| BPM | 139 |
| Key | G |
| Producer(s) | Stefan Boman |
The Game is the second track on Poets of the Fall's 2016 seventh studio album Clearview.
Lyrics
She's plastic, she's speed read, a classic line between the lines
Fantastic and half dead, his tactic, blind to warning signs
Her clashes of colors are flashes of society
In ashes his dollars like posters of a tragic love story
See the puppet master laugh, astride a pale horse
And take another photograph, for selfie intercourse
Reading out the epitaph of our pointless wars
For love we will tear us down
He's shooting at shadows, portraying a proper soldier boy
She's thinking, in logos, still searching for the real mccoy
Broadcasters, they've got this, disasters, a wasp of a satire
Like actors who french kiss right after someone stole their fire
See/Hear the puppet master laugh, astride a pale horse
And take another photograph, for selfie intercourse
Reading out the epitaph of our pointless wars
For love we will tear us
Down that beaten path she treads
Mirage the blushing bride he weds
Yesterday's diamonds and pearls
Now worthless trinkets in their world
The salty tang of blood, sensations running hot
Snow blindness in pitch darkness, mindless rage
And then you see the puppet master laugh
And take another photograph
See/Hear the puppet master laugh, astride a pale horse
And take another photograph, for selfie intercourse
Reading out the epitaph of our pointless wars
When love, love could be our crown
Trivia
- The Game has a lyrical overlap with Carnival of Rust:
It's all a game, avoiding failure when true colors will bleed - Carnival of Rust
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Her clashes of colors are flashes of society in ashes - The Game - "The Real McCoys" is the slogan on the logo for McCoys crisps, so that line may be a reference.
- Hello Cabaret may be foreshadowed in the lines "Yesterday's diamonds and pearls, now worthless trinkets in their world"