01Start Button (The Ballad Of Gaming)

-Part I- Up down start, a glowing screen In grandma’s den at age thirteen Beep-boop dreams, cartridges tight Blew the dust — ready to fight Pong to Pac-Man, we made the climb Tetris blocks in perfect time No saves, no cheats — just lives to spare And every death... taught us to care -Part II- Then came the disks, the shoulder taps LAN nights full of clicks and maps GoldenEye and Final Fantasy dreams Dial-up buzz and loading screens CDs spun tales that stole our sleep Halo rings, Kingdom Hearts, so deep From green-lit screens to open worlds We fought, we raced, we saved the girl -Part III- PlayStation roared, Xbox replied PC mods let dragons fly Wii had us swinging, Switch made it dance Mobile hit... gave us all one more chance Now we game in 4K light Headsets on, squad locked tight From 8-bit halls to VR flight We built a world of pure delight -Bridge- We lost ourselves... and found each other Made friends from nations, sisters, brothers Pressed “start” to run, to heal, to cope A joystick’s path became our hope -Final Chorus- This is more than a game — it’s a world we made In bits and bytes, we dared, we played Across the years, across the screens Gaming wrote our biggest dreams From Atari’s blip to ray-traced skies We’ve lived a thousand, thousand lives All we need is one command— Press start again... and take a stand -Outro- "It’s dangerous to go alone…" "...so we play together."