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[Retro]

Full official lyrics, from the writer's site:

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To Moscow I came seeking fortune
But they’re making me work til I’m dead
The bourgeoisie have it so easy
The Tsar’s putting gold on his bread
The people of Moscow are hungry
But think what a feast there could be
If we could create a socialist state
That cared for the people like me:

I am the man who arranges the blocks
That descend upon me from up above.
They come down and I spin them around
Til they fit in the ground like hand in glove.
Sometimes it seems that to move blocks is fine
And the lines will be formed as they fall -
Then I see that I have misjudged it!
I should not have nudged it after all.
Can I have a long one please?
Why must these infernal blocks tease?

I am the man who arranges the blocks
That continue to fall from up above.
Come Muscovite! Let the workers unite!
A collective regime of peace and love.
I work so hard in arranging the blocks
But the landlord and taxman bleed me dry
But the workers will rise! We will not compromise
For we know that the old regime must die.
Long live Lenin, kill the tsar!
We salute the sickle and star!

I am the man who arranges the blocks
That continue to fall from up above.
The food on your plate now belongs to the state
A collective regime of peace and love.
I have no choice in arranging the blocks
Under Bolshevik rule, what they say goes.
The rule of the game is we all are the same
And my blocks must create unbroken rows.
Long live Stalin! He loves you!
Sing these words, or you know what he’ll do...

I am the man who arranges the blocks
That are made by the men in Kazakhstan.
They come two weeks late and they don’t tessellate
But we’re working to Stalin’s five year plan.
I am the man who arranges the tanks
That will make all the Nazis keep away
The Fuhrer is dead, and Europe is Red!
Let us point all our guns at the USA.
We shall live forever more!
We can start a nuclear war!

I am the man who arranges the blocks
That are building a highly secret base.
Hip hip hurrah for the USSR!
We are sending our men to outer space.
I work so hard in arranging the blocks
But each night I go home to my wife in tears -
What’s the point of it all, when you’re building a wall
And in front of your eyes it disappears?
Pointless work for pointless pay
This is one game I shall not play.

I am the man who arranges the blocks!
But tomorrow I think I’ll stay in bed.
The winter is cold, I’ve got plenty of gold
And I’m standing in line for a loaf of bread
Maybe we’d be better off
If we brought down Gorbachev

I am the man who arranges the blocks
That continue to fall from up above.
The markets are free! So much money for me!
Tell me, why should I care for peace and love?
The markets are free! So much money for me!
Tell me, why should I care for peace and love?
Peace and love, peace and love!

And now the wall is down, the Marxists frown
There’s foreign shops all over town
When in Red Square, well don’t despair
There’s Levi’s and McDonald’s there
The US gave us crystal meth
And Yeltsin drank himself to death
But now that Putin’s put the boot in,
Who’ll get in our way?

So we reject free enterprise
And once again the left will rise.
Prepare the flags to be unfurled
For we’re seceding from the world:
We shall regain the Georgian soil
We shall obtain the Arctic oil
We shall arrange the blocks and toil
Forever and a day.

Game over.

Ampersand basically got it all, though, save that one line.

[ChairmanPoo]

Once more it is up to me to save the day!
http://pigwithfaceofboy.blogspot.com/2010/08/tetris-lyrics.html

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Damn ninjas

[Ampersand]

What, you mean I spent that time typing to the song for nothing? ... fffffuuuuu-

[GlyphGryph]

Of course, the lyrics from the writers site as posted by retro ALSO got one of the lines wrong, one that you got right, so there's that.

[darkrider2]

This is awesome!

I am the man who arranges the blocks

do you arrange blocks?

[Aklyon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_ZJaqeHfhs

Subtitled version. (real subs, not the silly ones you can activate for any vid)

[Realmfighter]

Please don't tread on my cheese burger

[Jackrabbit]

Be damned if the song isn't exactly like Tetris, eh?

It sorta is Tetris. The music's a big part of the game's addicting nature.

[moki]

It's like Tetris...bloody addictive Got it in endlessyoutube now...

[Puzzlemaker]

I have personally watched/listened to it at least 20 times.

[darkrider2]

Thanks to you guys my eleven year old brother listens to this every time he's on the computer... on repeat... for hours...

[Aqizzar]

One of my friends came to class today, wearing a shirt with a big Soviet Triumphalism tableau, with Leonid Brezhnev overseeing men assembling Tetris blocks.  I was so damn jealous.

[Mindmaker]

One of my friends came to class today, wearing a shirt with a big Soviet Triumphalism tableau, with Leonid Brezhnev overseeing men assembling Tetris blocks.  I was so damn jealous.

I'd be too.

[madk]

I'm trying to show this video to my grandfather because I think he'd enjoy it. Unfortunately he has what's got to be the slowest internet connection on the face of the planet (<1 kbps, it's truly pathetic) and the youtube video is going to take hours upon hours to load even on 240p. Is it possible to and might someone upload a mega-low-video quality and just-legible audio version of the video and as compressed as possible so the size is less than 2 megs? It won't really matter much if it can't be done within a couple of hours, but I'd be really happy if I could show him this video.

[Jopax]

Awesome beyond measure, i can listen to it for hours, really it has that something, also singing this in class is always great, gotta get me that shirt too