You're right, I think it was a masked political statement. I had written out a whole song for it but that's all I remember. It's been, like 20 years so the rest is gone.

I think you're point about lyrics otherwise is true. Actually, in your 'game' example they might seem like silly or overly simplistic lyrics but the context matters too. For that matter, if they sound cool when being sung within a song even if they mean nothing, so be it. I think lyricists sometimes get too tied up in meaning and not just the roll of how it sounds. Joe Elliot of Def Leppard I recall saying he wrote 'deep and meaningless' lyrics. But that he focused on how they sounded when sung. I think there is a point to that.

Sometimes I get frustrated when lyrics are too literal. Country is guilty of that. I think country can possibly use a lesson in abstraction. I'd rather they paint a picture in my head that give me a blow by blow account of the story being told.