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The Game Of The Goose

from The Green One + by Elephant and Castle

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The Game Of The Goose
(Edouard Poujaud, Patrice Steinberger - Elephant and Castle)

We walk on a sea of empty souls
We fill them with knowledge
And we free them in the crowd
They are proud and clean with their heavy minds
But suddenly they totter swing and finally fall

‘Cause the summit of non-sense
Plays with their innocence
And the only way they knew
‘Got diplomas while they grew
Now they're big, some of them are six feet
They’ve got two hands and two feet
Something missing makes them fail
I’ve seen some of them pray

We walk on the street sure of our force
But behind doors only air and the echo of sounds
We are thousand kids fearing to grow and fall
But prematurely our baby’s face becomes
Wrinkled and soiled

Burning calories in dance
And emotions in romance
Playing car crash on the road
Trying drugs, trying overload
Searching for flight flood in the darkness flood
Searching for our head on god’s shoulder
Something missing cut them short
I’ve seen some of them pray

True or false, god of games
Games of roles, a random play
True or false, guide the game
Game we are, to hear you say…
Say what you mean, hiding to us our fate
True or false, has god an aim
Aims are sparse, eternal chase…
Say if that lottery's wheel is the only way

We all sink in sea with our heavy heart
We’ve been missing the feast
We belong to the crowd
We were proud and clean
But we’ve simply failed
Now we’re searching for the edge
Where ends echoing of souls

We’ll die by the sea
And by the mass of the crowd
We shall makes no waves
We shall makes no waves
We shall leave no traces
Such are people living without the goal
That we all need.

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from The Green One +, track released November 6, 1991
Edouard Poujaud, Patrice Steinberger - Elephant And Castle
Recorded May 1991, Studio Robespierre, Saint-Ouen, Paris
Code ISWC : T-003.524.876-0

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Elephant and Castle Paris, France

Born in London at the end of the 80s, the french band E&C had turned the established order of prog rock upside down. They invented an elaborate music, inflated with the energies of Led Zep, Queen or Alice Cooper. The band was compared to such icons as IQ, Rush and Saga. One album (The Green One 1991), one tour, and then it’s over? No way. Two albums (one studio, one live), are released in 2021 ... more

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