| The Alan Parsons Project – Games People Play Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I like to think this song is about an artistic couple who moved out to the suburbs 20 years ago to raise their children. When the youngest one graduates from High School the husband immediately realizes they are out in a big lonely house with each other-having lost each other long ago while being tied up in soccer games, school activities, potluck dinners...maybe even a country club. He is asking the wife what they should do as he'd like to move to a small townhome in the city and feel creative and flourish, realize his dreams, now that all of the children are grown up. The wife, on the other hand, enjoys the suburban life, her bridge games with the other wives (that go late into the middle of the night because the housewives get real drunk and gossip about each other) The husband feels that if he stays in the deadly boring burbs, he will fade away and perhaps die faster than if he had an active life in a more stimulating environment. So he doesn't wanna stay there no more.. But in fact, neither of them really know what they want to do with themselves now that all of the children have grown up................................................ and gone away.......and don't help them...and don't think about them......sad.... |
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