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SOLITAIRE

by Zachery Allan Starkey

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Composed and Performed by Zachery Allan Starkey.
Produced by Zachery Allan Starkey and Jon Chinn.

Zachery Allan Starkey - Vocals, Synthesizers, Bass Synthesizer, Lead Synthesizer, Sequencers, Programming, Percussion.

Mixed by Jon Chinn and Zachery Allan Starkey. Recorded and Engineered by Jon Chinn. Mastered by Jon Chinn. Recorded in Brooklyn, New York City.

Released February 22, 2022.

Photography by Steven Celestin. Design by Zachery Allan Starkey.

Copyright Zachery Allan Starkey 2022.

Released by DeathTrip NYC.

Administered by Mill Rock Music.

DeathTripNY 0010.

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Solitaire
Words and Music by Zachery Allan Starkey

Forever on the outside
You gaze longingly in
You are fighting a battle
That you will never win
How much of yourself
Will you give away
To play the part
For just one more day?
Laying awake in bed at night
Dreaming of a world so far away
When you gaze into the mirror
Which plastic face will you wear today?

That's the price that you will pay
Feeding, feeding every need
That you feel today
You know I choose to
I will walk alone
I'm happier than you'll ever be
Out here, on my own

Like raw clay you will play
Right into their eager hands
They will twist and turn you
Into whatever puppet suits them
They will drag you out of your glass house
Naked, starving in the streets
They will take you for all your worth
Expose every frailty
They will take you for all your worth
But can you even complain
When you happily give them
Everything they always demand?

That's the price that you will pay
Feeding, feeding every need
That you feel today
You know I choose to
I will walk alone
I'm happier than you'll ever be
Out here, on my own

Now that the red roses of your youth have long since died
Now that your once bright eyes are bereft and dull
Faded with no life
Well, I ask you, was it worth it to play the game?
When you are left at the end of the day
With nothing left to show, and nothing left to say?
The game I play is Solitaire
And I play to win
I keep my hand of winning cards
Until I move in for the final kill

That's the price that you will pay
Feeding, feeding every need
That you feel today
You know I choose to
I will walk alone
I'm happier than you'll ever be
Out here, on my own

That's the price that you will pay
Feeding, feeding every need
That you feel today
You know I choose to
I will walk alone
I'm happier than you'll ever be
Out here, on my own

That's the price that you will pay
Feeding, feeding every need
That you feel today
You know I choose to
I will walk alone
I'm happier than you'll ever be
Out here, on my own

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released February 22, 2022

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Zachery Allan Starkey Brooklyn, New York

Zachery Allan Starkey is a New York City based Composer/Musician/Producer who uses analogue
synthesizers and electronics to craft dark, melodic, and heavily emotional dance floor journeys. Starkey
garners the influences of Techno, Electro, House, Post-Punk, Italo Disco, SynthPunk, and HI-NRG,
pulling elements from this spectrum to create his own unique sound of self-expression. Aka ZGRT.
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