| This is rock bottom y’all, I never expected it In order to be businesslike you must meet the prerequisite
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| Leave your culture at home, smile, don’t be too proud, too wild
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| You may suffer, just don’t cry out loud
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| This notion of proffesionalism is like an exorcism
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| Forced to give your life away while you’re earnin’a livin'
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| These thoughts had stopped me from rejoinin’the work force
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| but now the situation I’m in, just seems to hurt more
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| Maybe it wont be bad, maybe it’ll be good
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| I could use a little structure in my life, maybe I should
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| Take my suit and tie out of the closet
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| Try shinin’my shoes and brush the fuckin’dust off of my wallet
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| Let’s consider the prospects, make a couple phone calls
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| Now so many interviews you know I got next week
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| I’m strictly goin’from the bottom to the peak
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| I’m ready focused and determined to get back on my feet
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| Daddy had a name tag that said, Busy Working
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| Mommy had a milk carton that said, Missing Person
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| John had a new baseball glove, with nobody to learn with
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| That’s oil and water trying to mix on the same surface
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| I got a job at a business place I chose not to name
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| Ask me how did I achieve this so quick? |
| Yes you may
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| Back when I was compiled a stunning resume
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| I didn’t value way back then, but boy it helped today
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| I’m pushin’every single thought of rebellin’away
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| I’m workin’real hard, and my pockets are swellin', and hey
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| Can you believe I met the girl of my dreams, I swear she’s meant for me We’ve been together over 2 years, goin’on 3
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| We married on our 4th anniversary
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| Bought a house and turned a room into a nursery
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| For the bouncin’baby that we’re expecting in June
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| I sat in that delivery room from noon, to noon
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| 24 hours of labour then the nurse asked me his title for the paper
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| You know, so the government can chase ya'
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| First name: John, Last name: Insignificant
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| I’m smiling like a proud dad; |
| I got the birth certificate
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| Go to the house and here’s my and I looked around and nothing’s good enough for her or him
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| So my 8 hour days became 9; |
| 9 slid up to 10; |
| a subtle slip up to 11 and then
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| And after a 12 hour day, I too little energy to say 'I love you’to my baby
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| Or play daddy to J, and I thought this was the way
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| o be a husband and a father
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| I guess I could’ve looked in her eyes, and seen I lost her
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| But it wasn’t my fault, I’m workin’hard, it couldn’t be
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| I’ve been successfully existing as a member of this family
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| I was so convinced the household had to always be complete
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| I didn’t realize the only thing that’s missing is me There was never any talk of divorce
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| I can’t believe how focused I was in the face of such a huge potential loss
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| Thought I signed a greivance with the boss
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| In fact, I was mad at my wife, as if she’s trying to knock me off course
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| But I still visited the florist, to get her flowers
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| (When the last time I did this?) Hmm. |
| not since our wedding shower
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| I got home and I was greeted by the fact we’d been deleted
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| I was someone that my wife and child thought they no longer needed
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| And before I could say, 'Where's John?'
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| I looked down and he was clingin’to her arm
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| I realized-ed that I’m wrong
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| I blacked out and by the time I came to, they were gone
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| But somehow I sat and shook my head, and then I carried on And I still completed 3 weeks of work, before my breakdown
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| The ambulances came and I got medicine to take now
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| And it’s hard to get a job when you been treated and released
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| So both my relationship and my career had deceased
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| It took years to put myself together, peice by peice
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| And thank God I found a woman that’s propitiate with me And I’ll never let this happen again, it’s not to be
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| I’m ready focused and determined to get back on my feet
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| Daddy had a name tag that said, Busy Working
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| Mommy had a milk carton that said, Missing Person
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| John had a new baseball glove, with nobody to learn with
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| The oil left the water and the water kept searchin' |