… No Escape! (lyrics) …
“No Escape!” is a song off of my first solo record called “Bits”. It draws conceptual inspiration from a strange and challenging Atari 2600 game released by Imagic in the early 1980s.
The song is also the subject of my second video from the record. It is an animated movie in set in the world of classic video games … an 8 bit romance in less than 3 minutes. It will contain elements of action and suspense with gripping, high tension computer generated imagery unlike the world has seen since 1987 (see picture above).
Oh yeah … the lyrics are as follows:
No Escape!
It’s something strange we’re traveling in
This world so dislocated
Trapped in our cages shutting us in
It appears there’s no escapingIf so we’ll do it alone
Let’s run, let’s break, let’s struggle to win
Against the long shot complications
The social reflex tying us in
It was never in the calculation
Way back when the world went crazy
You lived with your dreams and held them in
And now when there’s no escape from this
Just take my hand listenIf so we’ll do it alone
If that’s the way inI have looked it over this time
There’s no surprise
This lock’s untriedWe’re settling into silence again
As the words can’t catch the meaning
This quiet holds an unknown strength for me
It’s tying up once divided
It’s getting hard to discover what’s needed
If look in the middle find itIf so we’ll do it alone
If that’s the way inI have looked it over this time
There’s no surprise
This lock’s untried