Wizards of a modern age cast spells of electric power

But the corporate strings that make them dance

Lead up to an ivory tower

There sit the fates in solitude, far from the public eye

No one ever sees them smile and nothing makes them cry



Welcome to the kingdom, the land of bought and sold

A world of real-life fantasy where truths are seldom told

Try hard to remember all that glitters is not gold

You can pay the piper, but you cannot buy his soul



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It's just a game, you're in it all the way

It's just a game, don't let yourself slip away

It's such a shame, I heard somebody say

It's just a game, and all I can do...is play



What you do choose, now, what do you believe, now

Who are you gonna trust?

All you dreams and fancy schemes

Just crumble into dust





Calm and cool and computerized to calculate and collect

We wait and watch and wonder

Just which puppet they'll select



Like the moth, too near the flame,

Who learned his truth too late

We're all too deep into the game

That is the master of our fate



The poets and the pipers have got their motives

And you've got yours, no doubt

And so the game continues

That's what it's all about...



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