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(music – West, Keneally, Kaiser; lyrics – Keneally)
This starts with stereo Henrys playing cool effects. Important to remember that Henry never uses guitar synthesizer – his magic is all done with effects. The Wurlitzer electric piano run through a SansAmp, combined with a guitar line Eventided down an octave, gives this song much of its grunge. Like “Chili”, the basis of this song was an Andy West bass part. Henry wrote the chords to the chorus, and I hung the rest of the harmonic meat on Andy’s framework.

HK – all guitars that don’t sound like guitars, guitar solo at 2:18
MK – all guitars that sound like guitars, vocals, distorted Wurlitzer electric piano, clean el. piano solo at 2:45
PP – drums
AW – bass

lyrics

You seem to take no joy in the game
Why do you play?
Why do you play? Are you a fool?
Do you put a gun to your head?
Bringing you pain. Nothing but pain.
Why do you play the game?
The game. Why be insane?
Why?

Manipulation, this is the game.
Leaving your tracks on anybody's good name
Calculate your darkest maneuver
Game the game the game the game.
Assemble, conquer, leaving your stain.
Calculate your latest maneuver
Search and destroy anybody's good name
Game the game the game.

All that can be said
Is that if you must ask
You couldn't possibly know
Yes I am a fool
And it will be my death
You couldn't possibly know
How I love it, I love it.

Manipulation, this is the game.
Leaving your tracks on anybody's good name
Calculate your darkest maneuver
Game the game the game the game.
Assemble, conquer, leaving your stain.
Calculate your darkest maneuver
Search and destroy anybody's good name
Game the game the game.
Manipulation, this is the game.
Can't you see that you are the loser?
Will we learn that we are the same?
Game the game the game.

Manipulation, this is the game.
Leaving your tracks on anybody's good name
Calculate your darkest maneuver
Game the game the game the game.
Assemble, conquer, leaving your stain.
Can't you see that you are the loser?
Will we learn that we are the same?
Game the game the game.

You seem to take no joy in the game
Why do you play?
Why do you play? Are you a fool?
Do you put a gun to your head?
(You couldn't possibly know
How I love it.
You couldn't possibly know
How I love it, I love it.)

credits

from The Mistakes, released December 19, 1995

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Mike Keneally San Diego, California

Mike Keneally has been a lot of things in his 35 year career: stunt guitarist/keyboardist, singer/songwriter, orchestral composer, producer, music director, painter, and more. After getting his start in Frank Zappa’s legendary 1988 big band, Keneally released his first solo album hat. in 1992. Since then he has released dozens more and is working on a new double album.

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