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Game of Chicken (Live at ProgStock)

by Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius

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The Game of Chicken was recorded live during a performance at Progstock Festival, October 13, 2019 at Union County Performing Arts Center. Rahway, NJ

The "game of chicken" is a game in which two drivers drive towards each other on a collision course: one must swerve, or both may die in the crash, but if one driver swerves and the other does not, the one who swerved will be called a "chicken", or a coward.

I thought about how dysfunctional our government is, how we continue to kick the can down the road for future generations to clean up our mess, how we scream over each other in our online media echo chambers and refuse to listen to differing opinions. Our planet is on the verge of destruction and we are too busy trying to destroy each other instead of coming together to try to solve our problems. This is the first single from our upcoming CD/DVD, "Behind the Curtain: Live at Progstock" due out in May 2022. Much more to come...

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GAME OF CHICKEN

Drowning in the false alarmers
Saturating your head
Carpeting the bombs you blanket
Theyʼd be better off dead

Dancing in the noise pollution
Tripping over ourselves
Screaming in our echo chamber
Louder than everyone else

Chicken little is roadkill for you
On your way to your rally of doom
Nothing is learned just
more of the same more of the same

(ch)
We're heating up as we run out of time
Getting close to the end of the line
Hold my hand loser jumps first in this game of chicken

(v2)
Talking past the voice of reason In a world of our own
Preaching to a hall of mirrors
We cant find our way home
Chicken little is roadkill for you
On the way to your moment of truth
Nothing is learned just
more of the same who can you blame

(ch)
We're heating up as we run out of time
Getting close to the end of the line
Hold out your hand loser jumps first in this game of chicken

Fire your pistol into the sky
This could be the day that you die
Over the cliff loser jumps first in this game of chicken

Chicken little is roadkill for you
Paranoia, shoot for the moon
Nothing is learned just
More of the same more of the same
Who can you blame

© 2017 By Joe Deninzon, All Rights Reserved

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released December 3, 2021
Music and lyrics by Joe Deninzon
Filmed by Matt Urban
Backdrop footage by David P. Levin
Recorded at Progstock Festival
Photo by Brian Tirpak
Single Art layout by Nick Katona, Zene Háza, Florida

Thank you to Tom Papmier and Ann Rinaldi
Ⓒ2021 Fiddlefunk Music. All rights reserved.

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Stratospheerius is led by founding member, electric violinist & vocalist Joe Deninzon. Joe! has been called “The Jimi Hendrix of the electric violin.

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