Game Theory: The Big Shot Chronicles
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Released: 1986 (Enigma Records)
The band: Scott Miller, Shelley LaFreniere, Gil Ray, Suzi Ziegler
Producer: Mitch Easter
Quick judger, long-time begrudger
Dialed in to the pyramid structure
Efficacious B-follows-A-cious
Something you can shove in their faces
Holding out for maximum missed time
The stereotype was right this time
Vague questions for showy answers
I think I'll take my chances
Ah, you've got me drinking in Canadian bars
Trade sad stories with the New England coast guard
Man you blew me off like there was no tomorrow
And here it is tomorrow
Here it is tomorrow
What the hell do you know?
I've seen the galaxies dance across the night sky
A billion years in one second gone by
I've sweated out, wanting every night
And I know the rules but it's not right
Lady M who never lets anything slide
A five-year-old blonde girl by her side
And I ask her "why have you brought her?"
"Young man, say hello to your daughter"
Ah, you've got me kicking off my shoes at the moon
Makes no difference if I don't get them back soon
God, you wrote me off like there was no tomorrow
And here it is tomorrow
Here it is tomorrow
What the hell do you know?
Where you going northern?
South into town?
Longer waits, closer friends
What's come upon you?
Where you going Maggie?
Where I can't go?
But things I am extend to you
And stay around you
And always find you
It's all too true now
That you see the world just as I do
And we do the things that I say to
But one day you'll do what want to
Maggie
When I hear your name out loud
My breath drops down
To know I've come and had my time
And done so much wrong
Where you going northern?
From warm to cool
And so to cold as things must go
And that day I'll leave you
And I'll spend it crying
And I feel it coming soon
'Cause you see the world just as I do
And we do the things that I say to
But one day we all do what we have
Maggie
All the kids from 916 came down Erica's gone shy If you knew this was not my world Too awake for night I've come outside About this time the girls are rising early Been too long outside Greyhounds to home If you were late I would wait New asking eyes each day Brightness as pure as December sunshine
And were misdirected trying to find the grounds
The Regency Hotel
Prom royals eyeing adult-life means to excel
Down into the city-planning flats
Near Victoria Park a block they gathered at
Old masters on the door
Re-styled to stand for some political reform
Under-civilized time, older-sibling-ized crime
And well it feels about the same
Lots of distance gone in vain
And darlings this one is for you
I've tried subtlety before but I will not anymore
For some looking down surveillance vans
M.I.T. grad alley cats with time on their hands
Oh sergeant, I'm sorry
In my line of work they don't teach no courtesy
Gifted children link your arms in rhyme
Better make this world while still it gives you time
Oh will you look so vain
Left to the purging jets like garbage in the rain
Wish I could with someone what I do alone
Should I just stay at home?
Should I just make the whole thing up as I go?
But what do I really know?
Lots of quickness now turned slow
And darlings this one is for you
I've tried subtlety before but I will not anymore
Some unknown X behind the why
All is some less today
Mass not conserving in the old way
Checking out with Brother Jay
I'll miss your half of me
Girl are you leaving something you might later need?
Erica's word, taking me clear and leaving me blurred
Erica's news, singing the praise and playing the blues
Pulling the rug out under my shoes
Twelve years ago
Shorthand allegiance to the long throw
Make believe and pretend
I remember when they served the same end
You always liked the photo of us
Sitting in our car
Just like we're driving
Girl it's not looking like we'll go all that far
Erica's word, taking me clear and leaving me blurred
Erica's find, blowing my hair and tearing my mind
Throwing for grabs and leaving behind
Maybe you'll find that promised love
The tingle to the touch
Girl and I hope it comes through for you in a clutch
But I wouldn't bet much
Erica's word, taking me clear and leaving me blurred
Erica's news, singing the praise and playing the blues
Pulling the rug out under my shoes
Erica's find, blowing my hair and tearing my mind
Erica's word, taking me clear and leaving me blurred
Knocking me down from second to third
In the way you measure lives
That while some get far through effort
All I get is exercise
Walk out a ways from the house you built up from the ground
And past the outskirts of your town
And if you're scared you might be lost, you're found
If I lost all the will you thought I'd keep
Would you make any vows on lovers' leap?
If it took all this time to find the risk
Would you sign any bottom lines?
I don't think so
Latticework without foundation
Holds as long as we agree
Question and you'll hear it buckle
All on your own suddenly
Were you meant for me?
If you were somehow I think you'd know
And things would seem planned long ago
If not maybe you'd better go
Too o'clock for sleeping off, I've tried
Freezing air so good for how this is
Such the opposite of show biz
Winter houses turning on the glow
Christmas based on Christmas long ago
How could I have known where this would lead?
Something that I never thought I'd need
Regenisraen, Regenisraen
Ends a luminescent color scheme
Mustard yellow and brick red between
Coastal cities glitter on the black
The wind blows across and back
Someone knows I cry to lose a friend
Go ahead and scare me with the end
Maybe I've become a patient man
Something that I'll never understand
I'm going to find a way to get back someday
Living rooms I don't know why someone would leave
And though it's taken time till I discovered
Don't you put your hand in any other
They suggest piano lessons for young beauty queens
And I know just what they mean
And if I answer to a different hunger
From the one I had when I was younger
Please remember that it's still just me inside
With one thing less to hide
Crash into June ... In and out of tune
It happens all too soon
And you don't know when it's there
Such a sorry state of affairs
Arrogance is taking me to that house
And a lifestyle I can really do without
Blowing inland off the tides of shorelines gone
This is weather that implies it's too late
Days that won't keep getting longer if we wait
Please don't think that I'm the one who should be strong
I can't keep this up long
Crash into June ... In and out of tune
It happens all too soon
And you don't know when it's there
Such a sorry state of affairs
Animal gentry too sure in your stride
Raised on small crimes
Nickels and dimes always add up in time
What's all the hurry to show yourself
When you're succeeding as someone else?
Maybe you'll make it to god knows where
Written in the book of millionaires
Taking loves a cause
Siamese cat ancestral twitch in the jaws
I'm not quick to act
Held to the ground under weight of the facts
And who's this they're letting get on t.v.
It's new and he's great and it's just not me
Go ahead and like him, I don't really care
Put him in the book of millionaires
Roads to Rome that trail from all advances
Fey retail towns
Legal grounds to block my second chances
The stone age gone, still and drawn
Ties once so long-ranging
All one by one
Come undone and leave me scared of changing
And it's not my fault I don't want to hear a thing they say
The only lesson learned is appearing okay
And I don't know who runs the show
Get me through a message
All you kids in your teens
May not mean to but you all impress me
I never try to sympathize, it's always such a strain
The only lesson learned is avoidance of pain
Wait all day right here
If no one were watching girl I guess I'd wait all year
Take my time, I will
Thinking I've been owed
I've got a funny feeling one more lost cause will exceed my load
Shrinking back your rear view road
Don't look too closely 'cause you don't want to see
How it shows when I know you're not wanting me
Tell them it wasn't hard
Tell them you beat me cold
If it ever helps you through just one day, let me know
And tell me that you told me so
Everyone gets tired of being out of reach
And you won't like missing someone you've despised
Everyone has gone, Matthew Mark and John
Oh girl but we sit here trading alibis
Don't look too closely 'cause you don't want to see
How it shows when I know you're not wanting me
Don't look too closely 'cause you don't want to know
How the world is changed when you let someone go
Some always trying to make me stay
And steal my love away
They won't do any harm
Something calls me back to your arms
And sounds all the alarms
Staying in line is easy, which is to say, it's fine
The things I do for you girl I never mind
I used to get my way
In everything I'd do or say
And sit around all day
Now I work nine till five
For some big day that won't arrive
But I don't feel deprived
Working a job is easy, which is to say, it's fine
The things I do for you girl I never mind
Staying with you is easy
And like a girl Jesus she makes it mine
Without a doubt, puts herself down on the line
And like a girl Jesus she's undefined
Life without end, she ignores linear time
And like a girl Jesus she's doing fine