The second of two new Marioke video game karaoke songs of mine to debut this month – first performed 10/11/2017.
Context:
“The David Perry Incident”
– after “Lose Yourself” by Eminem
Look
If you had
One shot
Or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted
In one moment
Would you capture it?
Or just let it slip?
Yo
His palms are sweaty,
knees weak, arms are heavy
Has Dominik upset him already?
David Perry
is nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready
to grab coins, but he keeps on forgetting
the controls now, to bowl down, Cool Cool Mount’n
He tries to turn ’round, but his plumber’s freaking out
He’s chokin’, wow, everybody’s jokin’ now
The clocks run out, times up, over, blaow!
That’s Project Reality, yo
There’s no parity no
he’s not played Mario
now he’s mad that he won’t
take back that trophy so
he won’t have it he knows
that backstage he’s a joke
he’s not rattled he’s stoked
and that pad wasn’t broke
the Games Animal? nope
just some sap as he moans and goes actually
“N64 won’t be out till past January”
Keep going back to this moment
Why won’t we move past it?
You better fool yourself with excuses, the truth is,
you’re useless, the web’ll never let it go
You only had one shot, you flopped, missed your chance at gold
Mid afternoon TV comes once in a lifetime, yo
You better fool yourself with excuses, the truth is,
you’re useless, the web’ll never let it go
You only had one shot, you flopped, missed your chance at gold
Mid afternoon TV comes once in a lifetime, yo
You’d better …
His reputation, lord of all British gaming
Games World was yours for the taking
Kirk Ewing
falls off toward the second corner
Performance is appalling,
but Perry’s tantrum throws the host’s boredom
Knows he’ll cause drama, knows that he’s gotta
Before the show’s over, uphold his old patter
Expose the show’s flaws, they know he’s no importer
Most KOs, battles he flows and knows that he’ll wipe floors with E Honda
He’s known to blow those high scores with one quarter
But let’s-a-go ’cause here goes the cold water
He moans he’s no journo no mo’ he sells product
The true Dave Perry who rotoscopes nematodes and that’s not ‘im
Now that GamesMaster, is old and not shown, but he still provokes laughter,
Not the Shiny one, the one with the bandana
You better fool yourself with excuses, the truth is,
you’re useless, the web’ll never let it go
You only had one shot, you flopped, missed your chance at gold
Mid afternoon TV comes once in a lifetime, yo
You better fool yourself with excuses, the truth is,
you’re useless, the web’ll never let it go
You only had one shot, you flopped, missed your chance at gold
Mid afternoon TV comes once in a lifetime, yo
You’d better …
No more games on my TV since the old days
Scotsman spouting innuendo while two kids played
It was never about the winning, just being on stage
On a real channel it went out, not viewed on Dave
Thursday tea time we’d set aside to get hyped for
Dean Gaffney being pulverized at Street Fighter
Andy Crane on the other side beside Violet
Hoping perhaps that we would catch sight of
Fly games that weren’t yet out on this side of
Akibahara oh man cause God damn I am still on dialup
Most of our news came from Digitiser
This was our life and these games are so hard
and they’re getting even harder, trying to one-credit Silpheed plus
beat Dishonored, Catch-’em-all, avenge your father, rescue Sarah Connor
Cooking Mama, Amidar – you know it’s too much
For me to even play or keep up, give a damn or not,
If I’ve gotta be Goro or unlock Noob Saibot
So Patrick tell you what, I’ve been playing a lot
Progress the only entertaining option, failure’s not
Son we’re sorry every game cannot be Souls, ’cause at 8 years old that was all we got
So here we go it’s your shot
Dean fail me not
This may be the only Cuphead video that I watch
You better fool yourself with excuses, the truth is,
you’re useless, the web’ll never let it go
You only had one shot, you flopped, missed your chance at gold
Mid afternoon TV comes once in a lifetime, yo
You better fool yourself with excuses, the truth is,
you’re useless, the web’ll never let it go
You only had one shot, you flopped, missed your chance at gold
Mid afternoon TV comes once in a lifetime, yo
Tags: David Perry, Dominik Diamond, Eminem, GamesMaster, karaoke, Lose Yourself, marioke, one life left, Super Mario 64, The Games Animal
