Do you remember green screens? Blinking cursors? Games with words instead of photo-realistic massively multiplayer open world shooter role-playing sim games?

We do too. 

Zork was original. Creative. And extremely well-designed. So, this week's song is an ode to Zork. Resource management. Wandering the unknown. Maps. Frustration. Triumph. Self-evident gameplay. 

See if you can catch all the Zork references.

[Verse 1]
Brass lantern on the counter
Half an hour left to burn
Mailbox near the white house
Nowhere left to turn
Words in phosphor green
You are likely to be eaten

[Pre-Chorus]
Hello sailor, hello darkness
Hello everything that waits
I can feel the Great Underground
Through the hinges in the gates

[Chorus]
Likely to be eaten
Likely to be gone
Likely to be lost before the light comes on
But I'm walking anyway
With a dying match in hand
Likely to be eaten
And I want to understand

[Verse 2]
Elven sword is glowing blue
Something's moving in the dark
Thief was here and left the trophy case
Empty as my lantern's spark
I can picture how it happens
I can see the lantern drop
Standing in the empty hall
Will I make it out at all

[Pre-Chorus]
But the cursor keeps on blinking
And the verb will come to mind
All the nouns are in the inventory
Every one I need to find
[Chorus]
Likely to be eaten
Likely to be gone
Likely to be lost before the light comes on
But I'm walking anyway
With a dying match in hand
Likely to be eaten
And I want to understand

[Bridge]
The game gave me a name
And a room I couldn't leave
I held a lantern high
To the edge of everything
Rules arrived the moment
That the silence learned to sing
I'm the one who knows the words now
I'm the one walking on

[Final Chorus]
Likely to be eaten
Likely to be gone
Likely to be lost before the light comes on
But I'm walking anyway
With a dying match in hand
Likely to be eaten
Now I understand 

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