Living for the Weekend

Hard-Fi

Oh, I've been working all week and I'm tired.
I've been working all week and I'm... just living for the weekend.

Hey hey, I got some money, I just got paid, got some money and I can't wait for 6 O'Clock,
I'm outta' heeeere

End of the night there's a club and a glass got my name on.
Run down my street I have glass in my feet, I can't fight it........

I did overtime, working is such a bind, got some money to spend, living for the weekend,
When it gets too much, I live for the rush, got some money to spend, living for the weekend!

Man! Yeah, I've been working all week and I'm shot, yeah, I've been working all week for what?
Just living for the weekend.

Ahhh. Shit. Saw my girl and I had a fit. Saw my neighbours and all it is...
No she can't come in, she caught her voice.
Slip round the back, at the back there's a place where there's a window.
Drop to the floor, can't risk eyes through the door, I got a family.....

I did overtime, working is such a bind, got some money to spend, living for the weekend,
When it gets too much, I live for the rush, got some money to spend, living for the weekend!

Can you feel it? Feel the pressure? Rising?

Pressure
Pressure
Pressure, Pressure, Pressure
Feel the pressure
Pressure
Pressure
Pressure

Living for the weekend
Living for the weekend
Living for the weekend
Living for the weekend
Living for the weekend
Living for the weekend
Living for the weekend
Oh, Living for the weekend

Going out tonight
Going out tonight
Girl, with you and I going out tonight [Repeat: x4]


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Living for the Weekend Lyrics as written by Richard Archer

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    i can't believe noone's commented on it, so I will.Great song, once again the fi have got working Britain right - local indie thus being proved. It is a great song to dance to at indie clubs.

    manumadmiaon September 19, 2005   Link
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    Awesome song... Not sure why the lyrics are written like that but whatever. You would have thought it would be a song you get sick of after a while, but it's very listenable.

    CrashBangOuchon October 02, 2005   Link
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    this band is so talented...i feel like they have been unfairly pegged by the stupid uk music press, saying ridiculous shit like "a shout from below the breadline" crap. every song is amazing...this is like what franz ferdinand could have been like if they didn't go to art school.

    paul_bankson December 18, 2005   Link
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    wrong lyrics.................... they should be:

    ahh, shit! so my clothes are all counterfeit so my name isn't on the list 'no you can't come in, so go home boys' slip round the back at the back there's a cracked toilet window drop to the floor, covers us through the door i'm on fire!

    WORKING ALL THE TIME work is such a bind got some money to spend living by the weekend when it gets to much - i live by the rush got some money to spend just living by the weekend!

    i think...................................................................

    HollyDog2002on January 10, 2006   Link
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    haha, anyone not feeling it? It's Tuesday now, but i cant wait for friday :)

    Sikoriusz, Living for the weekend

    sikoriuszon March 14, 2006   Link
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    um Pammy1978, that's what you really are! living in 1978, get over you're stupid self and see that Hard-fi says it like it is. Ever had one of those crazy ass weeks when work drags on? and the weekend is just such a welcome? honey, be a little less ignorant.

    avi2starron July 27, 2006   Link
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    yeh geez PAMMY its not like it has loads of special UNDERTONES IN THE SONG its frikin self explanatory.

    joyypoppet.on September 03, 2006   Link
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    i think she was being sarcastic! Weekends almost over, boo :(

    miss_motoon September 03, 2006   Link
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    i think she was being sarcastic! Weekends almost over, boo :(

    miss_motoon September 03, 2006   Link
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    the saddest thing is that pammy actually signed up just to say that XD

    DeltaTheNoobon November 20, 2006   Link

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