Paperwork
30 Mar 2009
"nivi, make a song about the monotony of filing paperwork"
-Adriana
This track is a part of Volume 2 of Music for the Blind, which is complete.
You can download the whole volume, in the format of your choice, from here.
Lyrics
the deadline's on the way you can't delay it's like this every day a litany of paperwork you'll go bezerk and you are drowned you are unwound and when you see there's more no more ---- CHORUS what do they want from you and what what do they want you to do the paperwork goes on and on and on you feel the meaning's gone ---- what if i escaped here and started a war what if someone else already tried that before what if when i leave here i'm shot in the head what if there's a reason i was sent here instead what if there was suddenly a shortage of steve what if there was suddenly a reason to believe what if i could make it to the manager's supply imagine if i managed to destr- (just shut up and die) ---- you hate what you became it's all the same you forgot your name and even though you try your best you fail the test and now it seems they crushed your dreams you soldier on you can't go on ---- CHORUS what do they want from you and what what do they want you to do the paperwork goes on and on and on you feel the meaning's gone ---- sitting in the dark and waiting for the answer sitting in my cube with a terapin enhancer sitting in a box with "filed" on the side sitting in a box because i'm trying to hide thinking of the days when i didn't have to do this thinking back to when i could, with relish, reminisce thinking what a waste my life is spent inside a box thinking how i hate it here and watching the clocks what if i escaped here and started a war what if someone else already tried that before what if when i leave here i'm shot in the head what if there's a reason i was sent here instead what if there was suddenly a shortage of steve what if there was suddenly a reason to believe what if i could make it to the manager's supply imagine if i managed to destr- ----