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Do Your Damn Job

from Moments 01 | Travels by Escape the Clouds

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Being caught in the middle of the October 2013 government shutdown sucks. I'm not getting paid, yet I'm an essential worker, so I'm putting in 40 hours a week with no telling when the next paycheck will come in. Meanwhile, Congress is screwing around and butting heads, not doing their jobs, while the rest of us watch in disbelief as they screw with democracy. I don't care whose side you're in, this situation is an absolute disgrace.

So, I needed to vent, and this song is the result. I grabbed my ukulele, hashed out the music and lyrics in the space of an hour, spent another hour or so tweaking the lyrics and chords, and recorded it one take. This is about as raw as I get. This isn't high art, just me pissed off and needing to find a productive way to spew some very negative shit I was feeling.

I hope you enjoy my cathartic little track. :)

If you want to hear me NOT pissed check out the rest of the Travels 01 | Moments EP and travel to more positive places.

lyrics

Verse 1
You rode into office atop votes and voices
And the hope that you might make some decent choices
Now our system's broken worse than ever before.
And the ones that are paying are those on the ground floor.

Chorus
Your political game is just a crying shame.
Everything you do is just to dodge the blame
Real people hurt by your fake talk
Do your damn job or we'll fire you all.

Verse 2
I'm not just a worker. I'm a person with dreams.
Doing my best to live within my means.
You depend on us, but can we depend on you?
We do our jobs. Do we need to do yours too?

Chorus

Bridge
I'm just a working man trying to get along.
But I'm smart enough to know we need some dialogue.

Sometimes we lose and sometimes we win.
But if the game was fair we can't complain.
If life doesn't give me what I want
I won't steal from you and tell you it's your fault.

Chorus

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from Moments 01 | Travels, released August 30, 2013
Music and Lyrics:
©2013 Mark Rossmore / Escape the Clouds

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Escape the Clouds crafts stories through both music and words, creating vivid, character-driven steampunk music. For more information about this and other work, please visit:

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