Benny – Little Game lyrics

Benny – Little Game lyrics

Play us like Pawns and relentlessly confine
Into living up to gender roles and having absent minds
Don't you think it's funny how the tell us how to live?
Don't you think it's funny how we're all delinquent kids?
Hush. Don't say, Don't say

Hush boy, oh Hush boy
Don't say a word
Throw on your Jersey and no-one gets hurt

Hush Girl, oh Hush Girl
Just bat your eyes
Play our Little Game
Play our Little Game

Bounded all thoughts and corrected common sense
Your raising suicidals with your predetermined titles
Like "A mess, Distress. I am Unimpressed"
"You're excess, a dress is all you'll ever be"

Gender Roles impose control and deceive progressive time
Welcome to the land of the broken mind

Hush Boy, oh Hush Boy
Don't say a word
Throw on your Jersey and no-one gets hurt

Hush girl, oh Hush Girl
Just bat your eyes
Play our Little Game
Play our Little game

Hush Boy, oh Hush Boy
Don't say a word
Throw on your Jersey and no-one gets hurt

Hush Girl, oh Hush Girl
Just bat your eyes
Play our Little Game
Play our Little Game

We feign opulence just to get by
Put on false confidence just to feel alive
They can't hurt me anymore
There's nothing to break of me
Nothing left to take from me

Cause Baby it's easy to fake a smile
When you've been doing it for a while
Baby it's easy to fake a smile
When you've been doing it for a while

Hush Boy, oh Hush Boy
Don't say a word
Throw on your Jersey and no-one gets hurt

Hush Girl, oh Hush Girl
Just bat your eyes
Play our Little Game
Play our Little Game

Hush Boy, oh Hush Boy
Don't say a word
Throw on your Jersey and no-one gets hurt

Hush Girl, oh hush Girl
Just bat your eyes
Play our Little Game
Play our Little Game

Play our Little Game
Play our Little Game
Play our Little Game
Won't you play with me?

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JadeNotJack 2019-10-08 01:19:57

Little Game is a symbolic version of trying to be Transgender in a society that sees it as unacceptable. This is very obvious when the boy reaches for the doll in the OMV. Dolls are "for girls" and that has been true for too many years. The music video is just as profound as the lyrics as they both venture deeply into the transgender community with obvious and symbolic meanings, some that only a transgender individual would understand. "Little Game" refers to playing pretend and not being yourself because you don't want society to "disown you". The song is so simple but at the same time so complex and profound.

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Unregistered 2015-05-07 12:50:16

This song is basically saying how the gender roles imposed on our society in children are overpowering and unneeded, and causes them to not do the things they want and not be the person they want to be. If you watch the music video it gives a lot more symbolism and meaning than words can describe, so I advise if you want to know more, find the video on YouTube. Thanks for reading!

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Unregistered 2021-08-23 04:01:34

I think the song is talking about the roles society has given us like boy can’t where pink because that is a “girl color” ,like dolls, flowers, or show emotion. For girls however girls can’t where suits, be smart, has to be a house wife, must be thin, and must be fragile. In the video all the girls were sitting it look pretty applying makeup and looking in mirror for the boys however we’re playing with action figures and basketball and cars all most saying this is all the boys and girls can do.
Also did anyone type so much just so that they could get into the awesome box of greeness.

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screwgenderroles 2016-08-24 12:42:04

The song in my opinion is about someone being stuck in the middle and not being able to come out of the closet to others about their sexuality or whether they identify as the opposite sex, I think the song plays in important role in teaching others about the struggles that the LGBTQ Community faces, Benny expresses this struggle in a beautiful simplistic way.

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heartachemel 2021-03-10 04:57:52

Hi, i think this song means how in todays society boys have to be muscular and play with "boy" toys and be manly. and girls have to have blue eyes, blonde hair, wear girl stuff, and be in general girly. And if you do anything that's not supposed to be for your gender you will get attacked and treated like shit just for being urself by people who have been brainwashed and think that you HAVE to be perfect you HAVE to be happy this way! when no one is perfect. the only way to make yourself happy is being urself. so we should all be ourselves and also help the brainwashed people try to find themselves.

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Unregistered 2020-10-21 13:26:26

This song is a meaningful song of transgender people. Telling the boys that they should wear "Boy Colors" and do "Boy things. Telling the girls they should Dress "Proper" and wear "girly outfits." If you are paying attention to the video and not the song you can see that near the end the boys and the girls merge together putting the "Girl Colors" and the "Boy colors" Together! I feel like this song is so inspiring to be who you want to be. Little Game refers to playing pretend and not being yourself because you don't want society to "disown you. If you watch the music video it gives a lot more symbolism and meaning than words can describe. So be who you wanna be do what you wanna do and never fell "Different from any body else" Different is your superpower there is no such thing as "Perfect"

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