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Thread started 09/03/04 5:07am

DavidEye

80s Pop classic of the day: "Games People Play" by the Alan Parsons Project (1980)

If you were listening to pop radio in 1980,you are familar with this song.I don't know too much about the Alan Parsons project,but there are so many "music experts" around here who will,no doubt,clue me in on these guys.The only other song from them that I'm familar with is their 1984 hit "Eye In The Sky",which I love (remember the awesome video?).But there is something really special about "Games People Play".To me,this song sounds mysterious and the haunting lyrics are kinda dark,for a pop hit anyway ("where do we go from here now that all other children are growin' up"...."games people play in the middle of the night"),but it's a well-crafted composition with a superb chorus.


"Games People Play" headbang

(wriiten by Woolfson/Parsons)

Where do we go from here now that all other children are growin' up
and how do we spend our lives if there's no one to lend us a hand

I don't wanna live here no more
I don't wanna stay
Aint' gonna spend the rest of my life
quietly fading away

(chorus)
Games People Play
you take it or you leave it
things that they say
Honor Brite
If I promise you the moon and the stars
would you believe it
Games People Play in the middle of the night

Where do we go from here now that all of the children have grown up
and how do we spend our time knowin' that nobody gives us a damn

I don't wanna live her no more
I don't wanna stay
Ain't gonna spend the rest of my life
quietly fading away

(chorus)
Games People Play
you take it or you leave it
things that they say
just don't make it right
If I'm tellin' you the truth right now
do you believe it
Games People Play in the middle of the night

(instrumental segment)

Games People Play
you take it or you leave it
things that they say
Honor Brite
If I promise you the moon and the stars
would you believe it
Games People Play in the middle of the night

Games People Play
you take it or you leave it
things that they say
just don't make it right
If I'm tellin' you the truth right now
do you believe it
Games People Play in the middle of the night



lol Finess,you should surprise folks by adding this forgotten song to one of your sets.It would be totally unexpected.
[Edited 9/3/04 5:09am]
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Reply #1 posted 09/03/04 5:43am

TheRealFiness

DavidEye said:

If you were listening to pop radio in 1980,you are familar with this song.I don't know too much about the Alan Parsons project,but there are so many "music experts" around here who will,no doubt,clue me in on these guys.The only other song from them that I'm familar with is their 1984 hit "Eye In The Sky",which I love (remember the awesome video?).But there is something really special about "Games People Play".To me,this song sounds mysterious and the haunting lyrics are kinda dark,for a pop hit anyway ("where do we go from here now that all other children are growin' up"...."games people play in the middle of the night"),but it's a well-crafted composition with a superb chorus.


"Games People Play" headbang

(wriiten by Woolfson/Parsons)

Where do we go from here now that all other children are growin' up
and how do we spend our lives if there's no one to lend us a hand

I don't wanna live here no more
I don't wanna stay
Aint' gonna spend the rest of my life
quietly fading away

(chorus)
Games People Play
you take it or you leave it
things that they say
Honor Brite
If I promise you the moon and the stars
would you believe it
Games People Play in the middle of the night

Where do we go from here now that all of the children have grown up
and how do we spend our time knowin' that nobody gives us a damn

I don't wanna live her no more
I don't wanna stay
Ain't gonna spend the rest of my life
quietly fading away

(chorus)
Games People Play
you take it or you leave it
things that they say
just don't make it right
If I'm tellin' you the truth right now
do you believe it
Games People Play in the middle of the night

(instrumental segment)

Games People Play
you take it or you leave it
things that they say
Honor Brite
If I promise you the moon and the stars
would you believe it
Games People Play in the middle of the night

Games People Play
you take it or you leave it
things that they say
just don't make it right
If I'm tellin' you the truth right now
do you believe it
Games People Play in the middle of the night



lol Finess,you should surprise folks by adding this forgotten song to one of your sets.It would be totally unexpected.
[Edited 9/3/04 5:09am]



you're a very sick man david lol. thing of it is.... i do own this lmao
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Reply #2 posted 09/03/04 5:48am

DavidEye

ahh,go on and admit you love this song.In fact,you like ALL the songs that I do lol
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Reply #3 posted 09/03/04 5:50am

TheRealFiness

DavidEye said:

ahh,go on and admit you love this song.In fact,you like ALL the songs that I do lol



LOL...i always said we was related smile
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Reply #4 posted 09/03/04 11:39am

jn2

The only other song from them that I'm familar with is their 1984 hit "Eye In The Sky",which I love
it's the only APP track that I know, a timeless ballad
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