~~~ When I was young I played video games Castles and dungeons and damsels to save Every night in the dark I would play I played on a flickering color tv I played with my forehead pressed up to the screen And I played until I would catch fire And for a little while I knew that I couldn't lose Nothing in the world could tear me away When I grew up I played video games In basement apartments and empty arcades And I learned it was all just a joke There were no kingdoms or damsels to free No guardian angels that I'd ever seen And no gods but the ones that we make But for a little while I knew that I couldn't lose Nothing in the world could tear me away Life isn't much like a video game Sometimes it's hard and there's nowhere to save And you can't start it over again So every day I play video games I guess I don't know what you want me to say I just don't want to cry anymore ~~~