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Games of Sets and Matches

from creation part II Transformer (Into the Void) by nat

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hey
i know a million other songs start this way
but that's okay
hey
let's put it this way
i'm game if you are game
let's play let's play let's play let's play

a little back and forth down south up north
you first me second and or third and fourth
or we can always switch
we are here now here we are
back and forth third and fourth
put this here and put that there
quick slow down quick
hit the brake before we break
if you make a mistake just do it again
they'll think it's what you meant

dancing on the ceiling
fucking without feeling
love without confusion
it's all illusion
see look at this way
the circle is a square

he says get lost, get found or get lost
or we could just get lost
if you make a mistake just do it again
they'll think it's what you meant
and if it's good do it again repetition again and again
i can hear chanting in the distance can't you?
we'll come back to that

do what you can with what you have right now

written in Infinite Jest:
"and lo, for the earth was empty of form and void. and darkness was all over the face of the deep. and we said look at that fucker dance."

it takes one to know one
it takes two to tango
three cheers for the DJ
and four on the floor
five fingered discount
six feet i'm under
seven i'm in heaven
and eight i'm on the black ball

so many plans i'm out of headroom
but deciding to do nothing is hardly a decision at all
what's a free radical to do with all these
maps and plans and charts and formulae
colour by numbers and keep within the lines
a free and independent may just choose to do so

to know's one's limitations is to have none

hey
i know a million other lives and loves start this way
but that's okay hey let's put it that way
i'm game if life's a game let's play let's play let's play

a little back to front publicity stunt
i keep thinking who's keeping score
or remembers the number we started with
we can hear now hear ye hear ye
back and forth play the ball
you put this here i'll put that there
get down quick i'll hit the spot before i stop
if you make a mistake just do it again
i'll know exactly what you meant

running without panting
singing without chanting
new days replace the ancient ways
yeah you could see it that way
but this feeling is always there

and if it's good do it again repetition again and again
i hear chanting in the distance
can't you hear it? we'll come back to that

do what you can with what you have right now

so many plans i'm out of headroom
but deciding to do nothing is hardly a decision at all
what's a free radical to do with all these
maps and plans and charts and formulae
colour by numbers and keep between the lines
a free and independent may just choose to do so

written in Infinite Jest:
"you compete with your own limits to transcend self in imagination and execution. disappear inside the fame: break through limits: transcend: improve: win. you seek to vanquish and transcend the limited self whose limits make the game possible in the first place. it is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely.

life's endless war against the self you cannot live without."

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from creation part II Transformer (Into the Void), released September 17, 2016
quotations from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

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