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A Zero​-​Sum Game

from Love Island by Louis Brennan

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A Zero-Sum Game

Out of the chaos
An order will come
Clear green water
Will separate from the scum

Now the virtues of the weak are obsolete
And cast away
Don’t be naïve now baby
It’s a zero-sum game you’d better learn to play

‘Cause everybody wants a slice of the cake
Oh, but I own the oven in which it was baked
I own all the bakers and all the flour
I’ve got my finger on the trip switch to all of the power
So, when you get up to the front of the line
Just take your goddamn crumbs and remember to smile
Just take your goddamn crumbs and remember to smile

Out of the vacuum
No sound will emerge
We’ll do away with polemics
And all their fatuous words

For the virtues of debate have been outweighed
It’s a thing of the past
So, give us all a break now baby
If I wanted your opinion, I’d have thought to ask

‘Because everybody thinks that their shit don’t smell
That all their friends go to heaven and their foes to hell
And everybody thinks they’re gonna change the world
With a reusable cup and a teenage girl
So good luck with your pyramid scheme
Just keep your eyes on the prize don’t look away from the screen
Just keep your eyes on the prize don’t look away from the screen

Oh ‘cause everybody thinks they’re gonna bake the cake
But I’ve got the recipe the rest are fake
I’ve got all the bakers working round the clock
And I pay ‘em by the hour so they’re too scared to stop
So, when you get up to the front of the line
Just take your goddamn crumbs and remember to smile
Just take your goddamn crumbs and remember to smile

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from Love Island, released October 28, 2022

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Louis Brennan London, UK

London-based Dubliner Louis Brennan is a singer-songwriter in the folk tradition. His folk however aren’t the field hands and travelling minstrels of yore but the repressed middle managers and ennui-ridden urbanites of late-stage capitalism. They populate tales of bad sex, drunk commutes and interpersonal claustrophobia delivered in Brennan’s cracked baritone, at times embarrassingly intimate ... more

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