Vinyl Plantasy VII (remake)

You delay the end of your day at home

Reload your last save, playing video games

In the dark, the story thus far

Alone, you wander in waves

And you feel so estranged from the world

You overlook pearls for stones

Each fictional frame

Hopes to show you something

About life, and set your sad sight aglow

These meaningful flames

Beg you to spark just the same

The choice is all yours

Enjoy and explore

And awaken

Go make up your mind

Make up your mind

Is this escapism safe

Is there some sick takeaway

Hit start to resume

It's your time to lose

Enchantments and spells

Quell the silence in yourself

You just can't wait to conjure

Some wondrous force

Chosen warriors come forth

To banish the blues with cathode-ray hues

Everyone sings

Thanks to these thankless heroes

Who cut to the scene

With quick victory screens

You can't pretend the hours that you spend

Are just pleasure quantified

Will you engage, or shut down your brain

Someday is waiting

For you to retry

So make up your mind

Make up your mind

Here be mementos that move

Clever stories, captive truths

So what say you, dear traveller

These legends foretell that a thousand faces will

Be summoning you to walk in their shoes

Characters bridge such distant worlds

Between us

Felt better back then

Alone with fake friends

We've got a mission for you

Make up your mind, go and find thy

Sacred sword that sleeps within this forest

Awaiting the time you refuse to undermine

The blessings from youth that persist in you

An analog to subdue each stockpiled sorrow

Surreal to be

Awake in a dream

Fables fade like treasure locked away

Play your part to pass them on

Remember what you have learned

Godspeed, go return

Be better and live ever after

For what was fought for

Make up your mind

Remake your mind

Temper your tongue to twist and

Retell those tales

The spoils of your war

The heart in your sword

Change your mind, go rewrite the lore

Make up your mind

Remake again

Make up with your mind

The choice is yours

The faces you forge

Tell the right lies

Remake again

Reimagine the self you've chosen to

Tell your tale

Let this fiction amend

And suspend your disbelief

A magic trick you pick

For every pixel and bleep, there's a heartbeat

Someone dares to share

With a world that begins with deception

There's a love backed by the best intentions

Restart and reset, don't forget there's

Something real there