The Chemical Brothers - This Is Not a Gam
The Chemical Brothers - This Is Not a Game


The Chemical Brothers - This Is Not a Game Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1
Released: 2014

This Is Not a Game Lyrics


There it is

Wait! Find what you love and let it kill you
Chop under pressure, thinkin' dammit (dammit)
All eyes on me like a conductor (conductor)
That mean, just play your role, you might can chime in
Wait, shh play the game to change the game
Word to Gucci, that's my hitta
Your way is livin' in the moment, huh?
My way is livin' for tomorrow

Oh I know what I'm doin'
Yeah I know what I'm doin'
Say I know what I'm doin'
I'm talkin' 'bout a revolution

There it is (Wait) ah ahh (Nah babe)
(Ah ahh) There it is (Wait) ah ahh (Nah babe)
(Ah ahh) There it is

Wait! All around the clock
Even when I'm under fire, preach
No never settle, I just stop 'em boy
But I ain't down to touch, I'm just out of reach

Oh I know what I'm doin'
Yeah I know what I'm doin' (ah ahh)
Say I know what I'm doin'
I'm talkin' 'bout a revolution

There it is (Wait) ah ahh (Nah babe)
(Ah ahh) There it is (Wait) ah ahh (Nah babe)
(Ah ahh) There it is (Wait) ah ahh

No This Is Not a Game (ah ahh) (This is not a game)
(Ah ahh) No this is not a game (ah ahh) wait!
No this is not a game, wait!

Patience and determination
Starin' at a body of it
Starin' at a gladiator
Victory is sweet and I'ma get it now and later

I know what I'm doin' (Patience and determination)
Yeah I know what I'm doin' (Starin' at a body of it)
Say I know what I'm doin' (Starin' at a gladiator)
Talkin' 'bout a revolution

Now this is not a game, nah babe
I'm talkin' turn out
I won't ever burn out
What I gotta make it turn out

No this is not a game, nah babe
I'm talkin' turn out
I won't ever burn out
What I gotta make it turn out, wait!

There it is (Wait)
(Nah babe)
There it is

Writer/s: PIMENTEL, MIGUEL JONTEL / ROWLANDS, THOMAS OWEN MOSTYN / YELICH O'CONNOR, ELLA MARIJA LANI
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • This track was manned by the British production duo, The Chemical Brothers. Most of the vocals are provided by R&B singer, Miguel, who surprisingly raps rather than croons the words. Lorde, the album's overall curator, also contributes to the chorus and sings the outro.
  • Asked by Fader whose idea it was for Miguel to rap on the track, Lorde replied: "There was this very early beat that the Chemical Brothers sent me. They sent me ten beats, and that was the one I kept coming back to."

    "It had no melody, and I was trying to dream up this amazingly melodic person on this amazingly melody-less beat, and I thought of Miguel," she continued. "I said, 'Are you a fan of Chemical Brothers by any chance?' He was, and he was able to deliver in that style. I hadn't heard Miguel in that way, and I haven't heard Chemical Brothers in that way, so it was pretty cool for me."

    "Someone called it 'playing god' earlier, which is a weird way of thinking about it, but it really felt limitless to me to sit in my bedroom on the tour bus and think up dream combinations of people who deserved to be in each other's presence," Lorde added, "people who I thought could learn from each other."