Cyber Café Anthem

One more round, don’t shut me down
Counter guy is walking round
Five more minutes, hear me plead
My whole team still needs me

Headphones cracked, mouse won’t click
Keyboard smells like Pepsi stick
Counter-Strike on every screen
We were kings at seventeen

One more hour, one more game
Put it on my tab again
Don’t log off, don’t close my fight
I just planted bomb site B tonight

One more hour, let me stay
Homework can be done someday
If my mom calls, say I’m gone
Lost inside de_dust at dawn

Warcraft loading, Red Alert
Chair is broken, back is hurt
Someone’s shouting from PC four
“Who unplugged the LAN once more?”

Smoke and chips and cheap cologne
Nobody wants to go back home
No Wi-Fi, no gaming chair
Just five guys and battlefield air

When the timer starts to blink
That’s when heroes cannot think
“Time is over,” he would say
And our childhood fades away

One more hour, one more game
Life was simple, loud, insane
If you lived that café glow
You still hear it: “Time to go!”