[Verse 1] Boot it up, it’s midnight mayhem, Quake’s got me fraggin’ ‘til 3 A.M. Rocket jumpin’ through blood-red halls, Giblets flyin’ on texture walls. Lightning gun hums like it’s feeding my soul, Slipgate hum echoes deep in the hole. Pentagram glowin’, health at ten — Press F6, do it again! [Chorus] Load screen dreams and pixel screams, CRT glow and caffeine beams. LAN cables snake like veins through the den, We were gods, back then — Yeah, we were gods, back then. [Verse 2] Shadow Warrior, Lo Wang’s got flair, Talks trash while slicing mid-air. Ninjas explode, fortune cookie truth, I’m half-insane from my lost youth. Katana swing, shotgun roar, Who needs peace when there’s gore galore? MIDI soundtrack pounding the room, Like doom, doom, DOOM! [Chorus] Load screen dreams and pixel screams, CRT glow and caffeine beams. LAN cables snake like veins through the den, We were gods, back then — Yeah, we were gods, back then. [Verse 3] Duke Nukem struts with a smirk and shades, One-liners sharper than the blades. “Shake it, baby!” echoes loud, The king of cheese commands the crowd. Jetpack fuel, pipe bomb kiss, It was stupid — but man, it was bliss. Now the world’s too clean, too sane, I want my chaos back again. [Bridge] We laughed through lag, We burned through nights, In pixel wars and strobe-light fights. SoundBlaster roared, my heart would race — Every frag had a face. [Solo] (wailing guitar over pulsing synth bass — distorted samples of “Boom!”, “Hail to the king!”, and Quake grunts echo through the mix) [Breakdown] 32-bit thunder in my head, Still see those crosshairs glowing red. Save game, load game, die again — Respawn me, my friend… [Final Chorus] Load screen dreams and pixel screams, Retro fire in twisted beams. It’s madness now, but I confess — I miss them, yeah, I miss the mess. The quake, the wang, the nukem grin — That’s where my heart’s always been.
