The way this song speaks to me🥺🥺when I sing it I feel like I relate
Game over
Game over
You win
Game over
I win.
Game over
You win
Game over
The Sleigh bells are a-ringing, the children they are singing
The memories are fleeting, a little game of (Paper, Scissors, Rock)
Game over
Game over
You win
Game over
I win.
Game over
You win
Game over.
The wedding bells are ringing, the shotgun is a-singing
Now keep your fingers steady, a little game of {Paper, Scissors, Rock}
A lion tamer yelling, your first piano lesson
A 4-leaf contraceptive, we play a game of
(Paper, Scissors, Rock)
A sweaty palm reading, a lucky shot of whiskey
Now come and rub my belly, a little game of (Paper, Scissors, Rock)
O's and X's
Hollywood Squares
X's and O's
Bloody Tic-Tac-Toe
(Paper, Scissors, Rock)
(Paper, Scissors, Rock)
(Rock, We will rock you!)
(Hollywood Squares)
(Hollywood Squares)
Not in your song
I'm not your singer
Not in your poem
I'm not your stanza
I'm not a color in your rainbow
But now which team
Are you rooting for?
We're Hollywood Squares
We're going nowhere
Hollywood Squares
Going nowhere
Hollywood Squares
Going nowhere
Hollywood Squares
I'm an' 'X'
You're an 'O'
This is the end
The end.
Game over
You win
Game over
I win.
Game over
You win
Game over
The Sleigh bells are a-ringing, the children they are singing
The memories are fleeting, a little game of (Paper, Scissors, Rock)
Game over
Game over
You win
Game over
I win.
Game over
You win
Game over.
The wedding bells are ringing, the shotgun is a-singing
Now keep your fingers steady, a little game of {Paper, Scissors, Rock}
A lion tamer yelling, your first piano lesson
A 4-leaf contraceptive, we play a game of
(Paper, Scissors, Rock)
A sweaty palm reading, a lucky shot of whiskey
Now come and rub my belly, a little game of (Paper, Scissors, Rock)
O's and X's
Hollywood Squares
X's and O's
Bloody Tic-Tac-Toe
(Paper, Scissors, Rock)
(Paper, Scissors, Rock)
(Rock, We will rock you!)
(Hollywood Squares)
(Hollywood Squares)
Not in your song
I'm not your singer
Not in your poem
I'm not your stanza
I'm not a color in your rainbow
But now which team
Are you rooting for?
We're Hollywood Squares
We're going nowhere
Hollywood Squares
Going nowhere
Hollywood Squares
Going nowhere
Hollywood Squares
I'm an' 'X'
You're an 'O'
This is the end
The end.
Lyrics submitted by the_day_we_lied
Hollywood Squares Lyrics as written by Chris Steven Pennie Benjamin Allen Weinman
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Exploration Group LLC
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the name of the song is not Hollywood Squares. It is called Rock Paper Scissors.
dillingers new shit sucks, the only decent new song is there cover of come to daddy
The new stuff does not "suck" at all.
The song is called Hollywood Squares. Go out and buy a real copy of the album and you would know this.
Come to Daddy was the worst off of Irony is a Dead Scene. And this song is all about how everything is left to chance, though I can't decipher the rest.
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good god! they actually opened for AFI!!?!?!?!? Jesus that's sooooo wrong.
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