Video games helped me survive

Through the hardest times

Gaming kept me aliveThrough the darkest nights

Gaming let me live a little life in my mind

That I could quit if I didn′t like it

But wouldn't have known it

If I didn′t try think of it as a different type

Of literature cinema

The vision of a different eye

My daily life changed

Since I've gamified it made it mine

It wouldn't be the same

If I′d stayed inside my aling mind

I′ve been failing life

Unable to find a way to hide it

This pain inside

Gets greater yet I'm talking pride in it

My brain is trying playing mind games

So I′m playing my games

To stabilise and save my life

Game let me keep score

When otherwise

I wouldn't be able to summarise

The basic reason why I′m even here for

See a door and open it

See a portal go for it

See, although you're motionless

You know to click

And open up that coconut

We speak for those that haven′t spoken up

There's loads of us

We were asleep but now we've woken up

Games helper me survive

Through the hardest times

Gaming kept me alive

Through the darkest nights

Although on the surface it seemed

I was sitting isolated

My purpose really was to socialise outside my cage

You see this virtual world

Was the environment I′d find my mates in

And be part of something larger than

The size of my location

I came to judge others

On character traits and not their nation

Learnt team work, communication and co-operation

I played Civilization with other civilizations

Traded shots, gifts and information

Give and take my game boy′s old and grey

But it's the same game boy that I hold today

How could I have sold it?

Faced the pain of seeing it thrown away?

So now it sits by my switch and another generation

Gaming gave me a rich extra-curricular education

I went to places and ages

School never bothered teaching

The USSR to Egypt

And even more farther reaching

I′ve been part of the crowds

In revolutionary France

Fleetingly felt what it felt

To give a brand new future a chance

I empathised with other points of view

Living in a bubble

What else was a country boy to do?

In fact, I took my surroundings for granted

'Til my eyes fell upon an oblivion sunset

Nearly cried

Waited for the dawn to come

Morning sun, feel it rise

Now I appreciate experiencing the real skies

I come outside

Summer rain splashes on the paving

And I′m like "These graphics are amazing"

How many polygons are in a single drop of liquid?

The figure's probably bigger

Than even your god predictied

The laws of physics are a code

By which we′re not restricted

'Cause we've been modding it

Since the first bit of rock was lifted

Real life and VR life

Are going to be like spot the difference

It′s not really a surprise

We realise we got addicted

Logging in can steal time

Until we′ve lost the big picture

Popular opinions we see online

Are often twisted

But despite the cost of this

I'm highly optimstic

To leap the drop and reach the top

We′ve got to risk it

We've got to paint on the wall of the cave

Unless we want to keep replaying the oldest of saves

You′re not holding the fort mate

You're holding your fate

That′s why I'll take my control to the grave

So until the day my face is like my game boy

Old and grey

I will remember that I'm never too old to play

Games helped us survive

Through the hardest times

Gaming kept me alive

Through the darkest nights

We speak for those who haven′t spoken up

There′s loads of us

We were asleep but now we've woked up

Games helped us survive

Through the hardest times

Gaming kept me alive

Through the darkest nights

We speak for those who haven′t spoken up

There's loads of us

We were asleep but now we′ve woked up

Games helped us survive

Through the hardest times

Gaming kept me alive

Through the darkest nights

Games helped us survive

Through the hardest times

Gaming kept me alive

Through the darkest nights

Games helped us survive

Through the hardest times

Gaming kept me alive

Through the darkest nights