A London duo's electronic track captures the strange limbo between graduation and whatever comes next.
A London duo's electronic track captures the strange limbo between graduation and whatever comes next.
The lyric doesn't romanticize unemployment or make it a generational anthem.
It just lays out the facts: a cyber café account grows while real pockets stay empty.
A London duo's electronic track captures the strange limbo between graduation and whatever comes next.
My hands have turned so pale.
The lyric doesn't romanticize unemployment or make it a generational anthem. It just lays out the facts: a cyber café account grows while real pockets stay empty. That plain reporting of digital versus physical money feels more pointed than any protest chorus.
That line about hands turning pale keeps coming back. It's not about sickness exactly, more about how waiting drains the color out of you, how time spent not working leaves a physical mark. The song treats playing as serious work, 'Playing is not that easy, it's a had thing to do', which makes the whole situation feel even more suspended.
It's a bodily detail that says everything about stagnation without ever naming the feeling. Pale hands mean you're indoors, you're not using them, you're waiting.
The way the phrase 'oh oh oh lets play' gets repeated, almost like a chant you're trying to convince yourself to believe.
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Graduated from a high school that's not that great, haven't had a job in two years
I have so much time yet no beauty.
Graduated from an Ivy league, yet no ones offering me a job
I have no money and my face is alright
When have my hands turned so pale.
oh oh oh lets play oh oh oh lets play
Since we already started lets just keep playing, lets laugh
oh oh oh lets play oh oh oh lets play
Playing is not that easy, it's a had thing to do.
Lottery trends, money trends, Everyone's losing their jobs
The winds blowing, the winds blowing.
I go to work to the cyber café, An account is being piled up
Money on my cyber card but no money in my pocket
My hands have turned so pale.
Oh Oh Oh lets play Oh Oh Oh lets play
Even if your sick of playing that's all we can do when we have no job
Oh Oh Oh lets play Oh Oh Oh lets play
I'm going to keep playing till I'm old and that's what worries me.
Designer, Creator, Narrator, and Model
The best suited job for me is a stylist.
(rap) Lets play, lets stay up the whole night and play
Everybody follow me, one and two and three and da kick it!
Oh Oh Oh lets play Oh Oh Oh lets play
Even if your sick of playing that's all we can do when we have no job.
Oh Oh Oh lets play Oh Oh Oh lets play
I'm going to keep playing till I'm old and that's what worries me.
( Youth unemployment of 5000 is not a joke. *2)
A London duo's electronic track captures the strange limbo between graduation and whatever comes next. The lyric doesn't romanticize unemployment or make it a generational anthem. It just lays out the facts: a cyber café account grows while real pockets stay empty.
Jadu performs "Let's Play", and this lyric page sits inside the Jadu catalog on LyroVerse.
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