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NPC

by Gadè

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Exploitation is the norm, and the biggest platforms are the biggest culprits. Creative people have had enough.

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Load me up, start my loop
Routines running, assets patched in
Smash the like, pick the fruit
Permadeath no-win, no save scumming

Performative methods of showing my worth
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Don’t at me it’s work
It’s enough my 12 hour hustle a day
Might just cover rent and the games that I play
For your entertainment and I know you say that
Why don’t you find a more stable arrangement
Been around and around on this point before
They roll out red carpet that hides a trap door

I’m an NPC
Begging for donations on stream
Hoping for good RNG
Cuz your attention’s my currency
I’m an NPC
Begging for donations on stream
Hoping for good RNG
Cuz your attention’s my currency

Crypto bro can’t pay for GAS
Second round of funding to float the project
Diamond hands talk up the pitch
Pumped up to the moon
Finger poised to dump it

Set a reminder to steal cheat and lie
These are the skills you’ll need to survive
Mindset is sigma
Got hours to grind
100 bits to the dollar
More ether to mine
So refined are the systems to monetise me
There’s pressure from birth to plan my next sting
That I couldn’t imagine another clear way
The world either ends or we franchise in space

I’m an NPC
Begging for donations on stream
Hoping for good RNG
Cuz your attention’s my currency
I’m an NPC
Begging for donations on stream
Hoping for good RNG
Cuz your attention’s my currency

Ooooo Ooooo Ooooo Ooooo Ooooo
Ooooo Ooooo Ooooo
Ooooo Ooooo Ooooo Ooooo Ooooo
Ooooo Ooooo
Ahhhhhhhhhh

So devout you’ll
make out you made it alone
But all around
indentured crowd who bought you a home
Delusion that you convinced yourself you believe

Single player invader in our MMO
A questline designed to fast-track the host
And we feel betrayed
Our freedom went
pay-to-play

I’m an NPC
Begging for donations on stream
Hoping for good RNG
Cuz your attention’s my currency
Power-levelled and taken the throne
World bled dry and never felt more alone
Running ads so convincingly
This campaign is now your main story
We’re the NPCs

I’m a pawn with no sense of peace

Go to work still sick
Give ‘em your soul from 9 to 6
Yeah
Wear that sweatshop drip
But refuse to talk about politics
And I...

Go to work still sick
Give ‘em your soul from 9 to 6
Yeah
Wear that sweatshop drip
But refuse to talk about politics
And I...

Go to work still sick
Give ‘em your soul from 9 to 6
Yeah
Wear that sweatshop drip
But refuse to talk about politics
And I...

Go to work still sick
Give ‘em your soul from 9 to 6
Yeah
Wear that sweatshop drip
But refuse to talk about politics
And I...

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released April 22, 2022
Music and visuals by Brett Uren.
Lyrics by Brett Uren.

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Gadè Aylesbury, UK

Shimmering riffs and towering beats, born of the artist's British and St Lucian heritage. Proudly DIY recorded using Garageband for Smartphone.

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