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alternatively called 10 cent job. inspired by some songwriter friends who also were writing about shit jobs and pointlessness. or so i thought. there is a video for it here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW88XyLPgt4

lyrics

this restaurant's owned by that overweight
plastic penguin that's pinching the cake
and the kids guns ho to do their job
they wear their dreams on their sleeves
they smile while they jog

he wears a little bank around his neck
and he prays that the greenback never forgets
he pays the kids and he pays the bank
he knows his serial number knows his name and his rank

and it's a 10 cent job on the 20 years plan
it's a leaky roof it's a hole in the damn
it's a broken back from a grease grill tan
it's a do or die in this slow quicksand

he keeps his glasses broken just like his peers
so he never has to focus on the number of years
that he's been exploited that he's been living dead
with an immigrant's illusion of a breakfast in bed

and it's a 10 cent job on the 20 years plan
it's a leaky roof it's a hole in the damn
it's a broken back from a grease grill tan
it's a do or die in this slow quicksand
it's a nightmare commitment to a boxed in pain
like a dog born to a collar and a chain
it's the reason i'm drunk
it's the reason i'm stoned
and if I couldn't stay unconscious I couldn't go on alone

born to swim born to die
but there's poison in the water and there's acid in the sky
I can't tread water when my feet are still
it's a slow slow slow death when you're dying uphill

and it's 10 cent job on the 20 year plan
it's a do or die in this slow quicksand

credits

from More Work Songs From The Planet of The Apes, track released February 6, 1997
vocals selina martin
bass liz teear
everything else wiseguy

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