Future Games (Live at the Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, 12/15/1974)

I did a thing last night
You know those future games
Turned off all the lights
And oh, the future came
You were by my side
Will you explain
Oh yeah
The real rhyme and reason for those future games

You were there last night
And oh, were you afraid
Things would come upon
While playing the future games
Baby, it's alright
Yes, oh, have faith
Oh yeah
You invent the future that you wanna face

How many people sit home at night
Wondering if this day will be here tonight
Wondering if children they bring to the light
And there in the world are we there in the night
Wondering if neighbors are thinking the same
All of the wild things tomorrow we tame
Talking of journeys that have been made
Well, I know I'm not the only one
Who's gonna spend my nights playing future games

Games, future games
Future games

Now, Boob, I wanna talk to you
'Cause you need a good talking to

I don't know if you've ever been to Paris
But this song was written in Paris
In the midst of 1970
Which was a bad year for just about everything
The only thing that was good that year was the Beaujolais
And the kief was pretty out of sight too
Everything else was on a downgrade
We were sitting up in an apartment building in Paris

I don't even think I knew you then, Boob
Or maybe we did know
We were sitting up in the middle of a blizzard

Getting really wasted but getting bummed out at the same time
Because the headlines in the paper and everything like that
And the club owner and everything, you know, was wrong
Everything was wrong
And we were trying to put a simple name to what we were doing
The process of analyzing with people that you're close with
What your thing is
Trying to figure out what's going on and what will be going on
And if you wanna leave or not
By the back door or the front door

What?
And we finally came up with the, uh, the name "Future Games"
Which we subsequently applied to this tune
And that's what the song is all about

It's future games

Future games
Future games
Future games
Future games