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This Ain't No Game

by Kessel Run

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1.
Player Two 03:22
Life is like Ghouls n' Ghosts You try so hard and give your most You fell the horde, but miss the jump You lose your shirt and die Life is like a game of Tetris Every move assigned just sets this Bar so high, you'll never win No matter how you try There's no cheat codes, there's no 1-UP's Only way to win is by playing co-op Oh, it's bleak but it's true That's why you will forever be my Player Two Life is like a game of Time Crisis Every other second run and hide Unless you're willing to spend all you money Then you'll never make it far Life is like Contra 3 Why's everybody always picking on me? Cause it's raining bullets and it's hard to see I can't tell where you are Future hope is black as coal 'Till we're both in control Oh, it's no fun without you That's why you will Forever be my Player Two You can have the health pick-up, I don't need it You take the wheel and I'll get in back and man the turret Can't beat this boss without you There's just something about Let's play this game cooperatively And say you don't want to PVP And tell me there's no player 3 Life is like Bomberman You run around in fear and plan And just when you think you've got it all sorted out It blows up in your face There's no cheat codes, there's no 1-UP's Only way to win is by playing co-op Oh, it's bleak but it's true That's why you will forever be my Player Two
2.
Time And Relative Dimension in Space We can travel anytime any place Anywhere, anywhen, so the question’s then Where to now? I feel nine-hundred years old When you ask, “What should we do now?” I wish I had a more exciting life And I could take you away Roses are red The TARDIS is blue If I were a Timelord I’d choose you And travel across the time stream My companion right beside me Silurians are green Cybermen are chrome We can run away and find ourselves a little home That’s bigger on the inside A time traveling mobile home For us to hide In my imagination We’d be on permanent vacation We’d see things we weren't meant to know And find trouble everywhere that we go But as scary as it gets, we’ll always end out on top And I would have a fez, you’d have a robot dog We’d flip every switch just to see where we end up Roses are red The TARDIS is blue If I were a Timelord I’d choose you And travel across the time stream My companion right beside me Silurians are green Cybermen are chrome We can run away and find ourselves a little home That’s bigger on the inside A time traveling mobile home For us to hide There’s just so much of this crazy universe to see But it won’t mean half as much if I can’t take you there with me Oh, you set my hearts aflutter Let’s jump into the time stream just this minute What good’s the future if you’re not in it You’re my homeworld any way you spin it Roses are red The TARDIS is blue If I were a Timelord I’d choose you And travel across the time stream My companion right beside me Silurians are green Cybermen are chrome We can run away and find ourselves a little home That’s bigger on the inside A time traveling mobile home For us to hide
3.
Mamma don't wait up for me I'm off to save the galaxy From orange-clad subversives and their brood They're vicious and their menacing And brutal, oh yes everything You hear about the Rebel Alliance is true After all the countless years we've spent Creating a unified government With a single, evil, sith lord at it's heart These scum give into jealousy Rebellion and heresy They're trying to tear our Empire apart So I'm getting me uniform all shiny and white Kiss my cheek and wish me luck The transport leaves tonight And we're off to fight Johnny Rebel Leaving head up high, coming back with a medal The next time you see me I'll be standing in a line Of faceless Stormtroopers on that Death Star in the sky Yes we're off to fight Johnny Rebel Put the fear of the Empire in those anarchist devils Divided we fall, united we stand I'll be coming back to Alderaan a man We'll put an end to this war We'll find peace once more With the Sith on our side, how can we lose? Historians will write They were dead, and we were right So keep your eye on the Holo-net for the good news Mamma, don't cry for your boy Rest assured your pride and joy Will come right back again this time next year Yes once those terrorists are gone I'll come back home to Aldreaan My trooper's wage will earn a life right here And when I com home in that armor, you'll be beaming with pride Grateful that your youngest son was On the winning side Oh yes, we're off to fight Johnny Rebel Leaving head up high, coming back with a medal The next time you see me I'll be standing in a line Of faceless Stormtroopers on that Death Star in the sky Yes we're off to fight Johnny Rebel Put the fear of the Empire in those anarchist devils Divided we fall, united we stand I'll be coming back to Alderaan a man And I'll be watching from above To protect the planet that I love And I'll be coming back to Alderaan a man
4.
Blue Bomber 04:53
The future's still rough, life's still hard We still don't have flying cars There's hurricanes and super-flus And supermodels posing as movie stars Politicians fight over ideologies Ain't even started on our warp technologies We'd much rather sit at home and Watch reality TV What we need now is a hero Someone to rescue us from harm What we need now is a savior A robot with a laser gun for an arm Blue Bomber, come to our aid He's not a boy He's a machine built to destroy evil That's just how he was made Dr. Light created artificial life for the benefit and servitude of man But when our hero was created, Light's assistant got jealous He reprogrammed all the robots and ran The robot masters gained new instruction Hell-bent on death and destruction So Light's boy was converted into a Cyber war machine When the evil Dr. Wily come to enslave us It will be curtains for humanity There's only one person who can save us Oh, "Mega" means million And "Man" means man He's a million times the man that you'll ever be Blue Bomber, come to our aid He's not a boy He's a machine built to destroy evil That's just how he was made Charge, charge your buster gun arm Bring darkness to light Gain power with each foe that you face We're counting on you Save the human race Upon a flying robot dog there rides a hero A warrior to help us understand Shining like a bright blue beacon of justice And firing deadly laser-beams from his hand Blue Bomber, come to our aid He's not a boy He's a machine built to destroy evil That's just how he was made
5.
Blasting into the depths of space At a bajillion miles an hour All alone with only two-thousand men Who will stand in defense of earth To heed her beckon call? To look new lifeforms in the eye And vaporize them all? Zapp, Zapp Brannigan He will rise again He will fly again, fight again Shooting straight into the sky again Breaking hearts among the stars again Patriotic Earthican Zapp, Zapp Brannigan He'll win the war again Looking dapper in velour again Buckle up we're setting sail again Do it with an alien He's the man with the keys To our deadliest weaponry He's not in it for the money or the glory Just the fortune and fame (Fortune and fame) He's a warrior of love Bringing destruction from above Let's hear it for the man with no name Zapp, Zapp Brannigan He will rise again He will fly again, fight again Shooting straight into the sky again Breaking hearts among the stars again Patriotic Earthican Zapp, Zapp Brannigan He'll win the war again Looking dapper in velour again Buckle up we're setting sail again Do it with an alien His brilliance shines like a lightning bolt crashing into the sun A galactic god among men, feared and adored by everyone His hair is as shiny as the shiniest silk - sex appeal for days As powerful as a nuclear explosion on an asteroid Colliding with a comet in a wormhole Full of anti-matter warheads in space Zapp, Zapp Brannigan He will rise again He will fly again, fight again Shooting straight into the sky again Breaking hearts among the stars again Patriotic Earthican Zapp, Zapp Brannigan He'll win the war again Looking dapper in velour again Buckle up we're setting sail again Do it with an alien

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Our most ambitious move yet - A crunchy amalgam of rock and roll, chiptunes, and geekdom. "This Ain't No Game" is five tracks of nerd rock at it's finest, covering all the basics: Video games, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Futurama, love, etc. This is the last album you'll need to own - until we release another.

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released January 13, 2015

Doug Crawford - Bass Guitar, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Alexis Blair - Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drums, Vocals

Recorded by Rick Cramer
Engineered by Steven Murr

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