1969

GAMES PEOPLE PLAY * WINSTON FRANCIS * STUDIO ONE 2086 * UK

1. Oh the games people play now, every day and every night now. 

GAME PLAYING OBJECTIVE SELF - GEORGE HERBERT MEAD

2. Never meaning what they say now, never saving what they mean. 

DOUBLE MESSAGE - ERIC BERNE

3. And they while away the hours in their ivory towers. 

SOCIAL ISOLATION - RUDOLPH STEINER

4. Till they're covered up with flowers in the back of a black limousine.

 SPIRITUAL AWAKENING - HELEN KELLER

CHORUS La da da da da da da da La da da da da da da de,Talking about you and me and the games people play.

5. Oh we make one another cry, break a heart then we say goodbye.

COGNITIVE DISONANCE - FESTINGER

6. Cross our hearts and we hope to die that the other was to blame.

 PROJECTION - KARDINER

7. Neither one will ever give in, so we gaze at an eight by ten, 

DIMENSIONS OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS - DEUTSCH

8. Thinking about the things that might have been and it's a dirty rotten shame. 

RATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: EXTERNAL AND INTERIOR MEMORY - SWEDENBORG

9. People walking up to you singing "Glory Halleuah". 

SONG INFLUENCES - DIANE NAHL

10. Then they try to sock it to you in the name of the Lord.

 RELIGIOUS BEHAVIORISM - EMANUEL SWEDENBORG

11. They gonna teach you how to meditate, read your horoscope, cheat your fate.

 OCCULT SCIENCES - RUDOLPH STEINER

12. And further more to hell with hate, come on get on board.

TRANSFORMING NEGATIVE EMOTIONS - OUSPENSXY

Chorus:La da da da da da da da La da da da da da da deTalking about you and me and the games people play.

13. Look around, tell me what you see, what's happening to YOU and me?

INTERIOR DIAIOG - GEORGE HERBERT MEAD

14. God grant me the serenity to remember who I am.

 UNCONSCIOUS IDENTIFICATION - SIGMUND FREUD

15. Cause you're giving up your sanity for your pride and your vanity. 

SPIRITUAL MADNESS AND HALLUCINATIONS - VAN DUSEN

16 Turn your back on humanity and you don't give a... 

ANTISOCIALITY - RUDOLPH STEINER

Repeat Chorus 2x

Analysed by Sue Broussard & Linda Ornovski http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/student3/amyl/public_html/499/hp.html

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