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Wake up, head out

Punch in, get down

Working all day

To rake in that minimum wage

Go home, back aches

Lay down, wide awake

Waiting all night for the sunrise to come

Start it all over again

The days go on

More of the same

Old shit goes on

Going insane

Burning the flame from the wick of youth

Drawing it closer to blowing the fuse

Dousing the pain with liquor abuse

Drowning your sorrows, nothing to lose

Counting each hour that slowly rolls by

Year after year in the blink of an eye

Day at a time you keep telling yourself

Praying someday that you'll make your way out of this hell

Cash in the check just enough to go on

Chasing the bills til they're gone

Stack up the deck put it down on the house

Waiting to lose it all

Slaving away just to pay off a debt

Nothing to save when you're old

Starving you trade in your name for a bone

While boss fills his pockets with gold

Every day and it's early to rise

Never to get out on time

7:00 AM to 11:05

That ain't four hours

We work til the night

Able and young you were glowing with hope

Dreaming of making it through

Now you've grown old and it's too late to turn

Failure fills up your boots

30 years later the same dead end job

Digging away from the soul

No breaks to have til you're broken in half

Cast off what's left to the hole

5 extra minutes each day on the line

No chance get out on time

Chained up inside til 11:05

No way to live, no way to leave

Run out of luck and you're out on the streets

So it begins

All over again

It never ends

When will this end?