Dan Bull - Gamers Without Borders lyrics

Video games helped me survive
Through the hardest times
Gaming kept me alive
Through 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 game-ified it, made it mine
It wouldn't be the same if I'd
Stayed inside my ailing mind
I've been failing life
Unable to find a way to hide it
This pain inside gets greater yet
I'm taking pride in it my brain is trying
Playing mind games so I'm playing my games
To stabilise and save my life
Games 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 helped 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
Socialize 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
Trait's 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 sit's by my Switch
Another generation gaming gave me a
Rich extracurricular 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 predicted
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 realize 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 optimistic
To leaf 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 just 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 us alive through
The darkest nights
We speak for those that haven't spoken up
There's loads of us, we were asleep
But now, we've woken up
Games helped us survive through
The hardest times
Gaming kept us alive through
The darkest nights
We speak for those that haven't spoken up
There's loads of us, we were asleep
But now, we've woken up

Games helped us survive through
The hardest times
Gaming kept us alive through
The darkest nights
Games helped us survive through
The hardest times
Gaming kept us alive through
The darkest nights
Games helped us survive through
The hardest times
Gaming kept us alive through
The darkest nights