[00:00:00] A Game Named Life - Akala/Mai Khalil [00:00:02] Um In a game named life [00:00:06] In a game named life [00:00:09] In a game named life [00:00:11] In a game named [00:00:13] A game named life where fools make the rules [00:00:15] And poets paint pictures with words that change nothing [00:00:18] Survival of the fittest they say are they sure [00:00:21] Or just the survival of those [00:00:22] With the will to kill more [00:00:23] The heart that thinks itself purely surely is not hungry [00:00:26] Hungry hearts know too well the world is f**kery [00:00:29] And nature is indifferent to the suffering of infants [00:00:32] That think ourselves growing [00:00:33] Human beings and something special [00:00:34] But as fate would have it I ain't buying the idea of fate [00:00:37] It seems we shape every place that we grace with hate [00:00:40] Depending which side of the fence or which epoch [00:00:42] You die a slow death or be singing from the treetops [00:00:45] Praise for the status quo cus you're comfortable [00:00:48] Those who lost out in this lottery ha f**k 'em all [00:00:50] Nice with this roll of the dice I'm quite proud and [00:00:53] I don't know if we will ever roll another time round [00:00:55] When the how [00:00:57] It's a game named life [00:00:59] In a game named life [00:01:02] In a game named life [00:01:05] In a game named life [00:01:07] In a game named life [00:01:09] Where the dice decide where I go [00:01:11] There I go in a game named life [00:01:14] I dream to be let go [00:01:17] A game named life where fools make the rules [00:01:19] And poets paint pictures [00:01:21] With words that change nothing [00:01:22] Young child soldier revolver not bluffing [00:01:25] In a game that teaches children [00:01:26] To kill but can't love them [00:01:27] What is the journey of a bullet from [00:01:29] The ground until we pull it [00:01:30] A piece of earth made to blow holes in souls [00:01:33] I'd like to know does a child choose in [00:01:35] It's mother's core or before as just [00:01:36] A sperm to be born in war [00:01:38] Does another sperm choose greatness [00:01:40] Floating in his father's pleasure [00:01:41] Or does the game only begin [00:01:42] When the umbilical's severed [00:01:44] Is that the reason babies born screaming [00:01:45] Because they know they left the spirit world [00:01:47] To live here with no meaning among demons [00:01:49] That see them as nothing more than chess pieces [00:01:51] In a game named life where even [00:01:53] Te winners stop breathing [00:01:54] And the whole thing is as tedious [00:01:55] As a tale that is told twice [00:01:57] We clone life but don't even own our own life [00:02:01] In a game named life [00:02:03] In a game named life [00:02:06] In a game named life [00:02:08] In a game named life [00:02:11] In a game named life [00:02:13] Where the dice decide where I go [00:02:15] There I go in a game named life [00:02:18] I dream to be let go [00:02:22] Sacrifice pain and strife [00:02:27] This game named life is over [00:02:30] Before we even know [00:02:32] Life is a mirror always looking at you [00:02:34] It's not what we say or think [00:02:35] We are just what we do [00:02:37] With the time that is given it comes with no ribbon [00:02:39] Because life is not a gift to everyone that's living [00:02:42] Most of the moves are made [00:02:43] Before you took your first go [00:02:45] Some got a huge head start before their first role [00:02:48] So you could play with more skill than the other players [00:02:50] They will still be ahead because [00:02:51] The past generations [00:02:53] Accumulated spaces so [00:02:54] They could practice with acres [00:02:55] Illuminated arrangements so [00:02:57] They could manage retainers [00:02:58] Are you foolish They ain't racing [00:02:59] We're chasing the pay slip [00:03:01] So they have won before even the [00:03:02] Game starts unless we change it [00:03:03] To another set of rules different from the fools [00:03:06] But to do that we are going [00:03:07] To have to use their tools [00:03:09] And therein lies our greatest dilemma