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Song Info
Genre
Charts
Peak #34
Peak in subgenre #6
Author
J. Wrabek dba Outside Services Ltd.
Rights
2014
Uploaded
May 07, 2014
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.4 MB • 128 kbps • 4:50
Story behind the song
I lost my job. And there was a song in it.
Lyrics
[4/4, slow two-step]
PLAYING IN THE RUINS
--J. Wrabek
1.
I can still remember when the rockets flew the sky;
Then one day, they went away, and no one told us why;
Perrhaps the pilots found a place
To settle, up in outer space,
Leaving us down here to face
Not knowing how to fly.
2.
That truck outside still looks real nice, though it hasn’t run for years;
Something’s wrong inside its brain that no one can repair;
Besides, it runs on gasoline—
Ain’t had that stuff since ‘Ought-sixteen—
But it’s fun to sit behind the window screen
And pretend I ain’t stuck here.
CHORUS:
We’re just playing in the ruins that people left before;
Things don’t work, and we don’t know how to fix them any more;
They made things last forever—don’t know what they had in mind…
We’re just playing in the ruins of the things they left behind.
3.
The children still got pocket phones, but they don’t know what they’re for;
They’re just pretty things to have around, and trade like baseball cards;
They think I’m crazy when I say
You could talk to people far away
No one does that stuff today—
Just getting around is hard.
CHORUS:
We’re just playing in the ruins that people left before;
Things don’t work, and we don’t know how to fix them any more;
They made things last forever—don’t know what they had in mind…
We’re just playing in the ruins of the things they left behind.
4.
The outside lights would shine so bright you never saw the stars;
Water came in bottles, and people came in cars;
The grocery store had winter food
That someone somewhere warmer grew--
I guess that stuff was bad for you,
We don’t do it any more.
CHORUS:
We’re just playing in the ruins that people left before;
Things don’t work, and we don’t know how to fix them any more;
They made things last forever—don’t know what they had in mind…
We’re just playing in the ruins of the things they left behind.
INSTRUMENTAL BREAK
BRIDGE:
The world’s a little smaller now, but you can see the sky at night
Ev’ryone’s on the baseball team, and we always play outside;
The doctor comes by now and then
When he’s found a little medicine
And we still have milk and eggs for him
Even though his patients died.
CHORUS:
We’re just playing in the ruins that people left before;
Things don’t work, and we don’t know how to fix them any more;
They made things last forever—don’t know what they had in mind…
We’re just playing in the ruins of the things they left behind.
TAG:
We’re just playing in the ruins of the things they left behind.
©2014 J. Wrabek dba Outside Services Ltd. All the usual rights reserved just in case. The future was not harmed in the writing of this song (I hope).
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