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Played by the Numbers

from Small Flames by Dylan Blackthorn

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I wrote this song while thinking about what one would have to do go go on the lam in this modern age. One would have to only go to new places, do new things, meet new people, and do nothing that one had ever done before. Total re-invention of the self - would freedom be worth it? A nod to the mad rants of Francis E. Dec, Esquire, OG conspiracy theorist. Little did he know, that metadata is a bitch.

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I sit upon a throne, inside a stream
this concrete river overlooks everything
I can't remember the last time I walked anywhere
or where I was walking to
the numbers are eating so many moments in our lives
Yes we're played, played by the numbers
Our lives played against the odds
We're played, played by the numbers
and our only hope is to do something new
The threat of nuclear war might frighten
some of us back into line
I thought that went away with the 80's - oy.
yet somehow storm troopers are still marching in time
in our name - in lands that we've never been, never seen
And they're played, played by the numbers
They're lives are played against the odds
They're played, played by the numbers
and They're only hope is to do something new
A deluded illusion of my soul haunts humming, empty halls
It's a vision static, in electricity
I fear it might be used someday by some evil gangster computer god
to steal away all that I hold dear
As we're played, played by the numbers
Even our souls are played against the odds
We're played, played by the numbers
and our only hope is to do something new
Yet somehow, still, gardens are growing
Beauty, art, and life still flowing
People we build and invent because
We've got something to finish
And that's the work that G-D started so long ago.

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from Small Flames, released April 1, 2021
Written and composed by Dylan Blackthorn
Produced by Dylan Blackthorn
Recorded, mixed, & mastered by Matt Smith at 6-String Ranch studio in Austin, Texas.
Dylan Blackthorn - lead vocal, accordion
Samantha Blackthorn - xylophone
Dr. $ick - fiddle, guitar
Tom Crail - tuba
Michael Rubin - encylopediae harmonicae
Eldridge Goins - drums

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Dylan Blackthorn Austin, Texas

Accordion-driven singer, songwriter, composer, and band leader at THAT Damned Band, Thee Harlequine, & Mazel Tov Kocktail Hour.
Part time Quantum Mechanic with 999 EYES FREAKSHOW & SURREAL SIDESHOW.
Austiner Klezmer Bund member since 2013.
TIME TRAVELER'S Local 999 since 2030. ... more

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