bored games lyrics

Happy Endings (Shayne Carter)

It's hard, but she carried the grace in the hands you saw
And the only respect that they could pay was a photo from the morgue
They had the cruelest [?] at your feet, but the pain made you a slave
They fought to create the greatest star, but all they made was your grave
Who cares about the losing [?] the cravings for news made them blind
And every corner that you took, they'd be waiting in their droves oh Marilyn [?] died

Who cares about Marilyn Monroe, that's not who they saw
They just saw the barbie doll with feelings best ignored
Who cares about Marilyn Monroe, for years now she's been gone
We destroyed the barbie doll, but we can carry on

A sales scheme and tragic reality, security was a dream
Cause everyone that she turned to didn't want to know you, they only wanted what they saw on the screen
Can't imagine the cry of despair when there was no one there when you couldn't find a straw
Hollywood wrote the tragedy, with a marketers' encore
Broken hearts were everywhere when you took the final course
But the saddest thing about a shattered dream was that the biggest broken heart was yours

We can carry on, we can carry on


I Don't Get It (Shayne Carter)

You say how the joke's on me, so why don't I get it?
You say how you're happy free, and try to forget it
Too many read the magazines to be a step ahead
And all of us have fought a lot, but we feel like being dead

You know you can help what they made you
You know you can help what you are

She's in love with her own image, [...?...]
He don't know quite what he is, can't find the misery
Make up your minds who you're gonna be, then try to remember
Hope is love and love is deceit, and [...?...] never


Joe 90 (Shayne Carter/Fraser Batts)

A one. A two. A one two three four
You remember on the TV
The perfect example for you and me
The fifties had rock, and the dancing craze
Seventies saw clashes lost and made
But the decade in between saw the end to that
Of course the nineteen sixties had Joe 90

Ah every afternoon, sitting on the floor
I'd sit and gaze and mainly adore
Joe upholding justice and law
And shootin' all the bad guys, one, two, three, four!

Joe unfortunately was held by many strings
But our brave lad fought what evil brings
The perfect example for you and me, Joe 90!
He fought what all evil brings, Joe 90!
The perfect example for you and me, Joe 90!
Fought for justice and all good things, Joe 90!

Whoah, Joe 90!


Bridesmaid (Shayne Carter)

After the fall and making the grade
You think you're so justified and feeling so great
You have what you want, so that's what you portray
I don't think you're winning or at least that's in your mind
When you finally get what you had thought that you had left behind
But then the [?] comes around and you're wasting your time
Bridesmaid again
Bridesmaid again
Bridesmaid again

Unlucky in love and everything else
I don't care for anyone except myself
But I need someone for when the cravings will allow
I can't [...?...] they don't fucking understand
But I can't accept what people seem to think I really am
And the only thing I get is the despair called fact
I'm a bridesmaid again
Bridesmaid again
Bridesmaid again

Paranoia
Gripping me
Cause I'm so full of
Insecurity
Ignorant people
Find out what you're on
And again I think, again I think
Bridesmaid again
Again, again, again...

And I finally tell you I'm a bridesmaid again


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