Competition
Album: Higher Self
By: Rod Kinny
By: Rod Kinny
Duration
5:13
Genres
Description
A song about a young suburban couple whom fill their lives with more & more "bling" whilst discovering the more "bling" they acquire, they are left feeling unfulfilled.
Lyrics
Look at the lives of 22 Paper Avenue The both work hard all day To the highest demand so they can make their pay The latest gadgets help to make the illusion real They both have lots of friends To make it through life they have to both pretend Wrapped up in what they own, how can a blood diamond equal happiness? Hoping to bag that loan, spending the spoils to avoid their emptiness Want, need, & competition, done in a longing for love Hoping for the most of it, for that slice of pie of the pyramid’s eye above Miami, Milwaukee, San Francisco, it’s all spread out In suburban greens glued to TV screens They dream of what they just don’t need A pasture of calm in just the thing that alludes them most Cause that cocaine on the coffee table’s Calling them to make their toast Then as the weekend flows, breakout the crystal goblets have a ball Gambling the debts they owe, the chair of the bank controls it all Want, need, & competition, done in a longing for love Hoping for the most of it, for that slice of pie of the pyramid’s eye above Want, need, & competition, done in protection love Reaching for a plastic life, prone to please their makers above Want, need, & competition, all for a feeling of love Hoping for the most of it, for that slice of pie if you don’t ask why Want, need, & competition, done in protection love Reaching for a plastic life, for that slice of pie of the pyramid’s eye
