Nate Marshall & the Family Band - Name of Their Game

Did it start with the Romans? Or was it the Greeks?
Did it start when Adam had an apple to eat?
With the moon, with the sun
Did it start with the plow?
It's not easy to say when, where, why, and how
Control, control, control, control
The name of their game is control

Did it come to us with Columbus
And the gold he got paid to conquer the natives
In the hunger for trade?
And endlessly westward
Crushing man, land, and bird
Reservations, slaves
Unmarked and shallow graves
Control, control, control, control
The name of their game is control

What about you titans of industry? You framers of law?
Those who forge frenzy that precedes every war?
Did it flourish the night
They drove old Dixie down?
The rich sell the word
The poor hit the ground
Control, control, control, control
The name of their game is control

Is it codified in schools? the World Bank? the UN?
Those CIA cocaine planes, inoculation
Does it rise like a virus
And feed on compromises?
Contagious, through the ages
No surprise that it's grown
Control, control, control, control
The name of their game is control

Delivery rooms, school rooms, cubicles, hospitals, the morgue
Cue-tips, warheads, condoms, sidewalks, air fresheners
The two-party system
ABC, CBS, CSI, IBM, IMF, WFC, wtf!?
My F-A-C-E, you too could have clear skin in just 2 weeks...
Television, television, television, television, television
Ab rollers, weight watchers, bottled water, newspapers, the mirror
Typing album lyrics!

They say the age of privacy is now extinct
So guard your identity and watch what you think
While they manage the weapons, the drugs, and the hemp
The water, the oil, every dollar and cent
Control, control, control, control
The name of their game is control

Does it end in revolution? in nuclear fog?
In rapture and brimstone? or does it just go on and on?
In the digital darkness answers are few
But there's some of it in me
Is there some of it in you?
Control, control, control, control
The name of our game is control
Control, control, control, control
The name of their game is control

Written by:
Nate Marshall

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