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I know a guy who lives just for the weekends
He says he's tired a lot
He says there should be five days of weekend
Instead of five days of work
And I remind him we get old and retire
Too old to do anything but golf
When you're young you're in school
Or in the workforce
Let's make old people work
That's a joke
We got a job to do and this is it
I know a girl who works in an office
She says she has no time for herself
She says other than that everything is fine,
Everything is fine
I remind her everything's not quite fine
Maybe it's OK or even worse
Work should not control our every minute
Eat to work
Sleep to work
Live to work, work
We have the best job ever
Yeah we really got lucky
We're nobody's robot
We're nobody's monkey.
He says he's tired a lot
He says there should be five days of weekend
Instead of five days of work
And I remind him we get old and retire
Too old to do anything but golf
When you're young you're in school
Or in the workforce
Let's make old people work
That's a joke
We got a job to do and this is it
I know a girl who works in an office
She says she has no time for herself
She says other than that everything is fine,
Everything is fine
I remind her everything's not quite fine
Maybe it's OK or even worse
Work should not control our every minute
Eat to work
Sleep to work
Live to work, work
We have the best job ever
Yeah we really got lucky
We're nobody's robot
We're nobody's monkey.
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This is the first Piebald song I ever heard and I love the 7/8ths time. The song meaning seems pretty straightforward: He describes two types of people, a robot (the girl that only works) and a monkey (the guy that just wants to sit around and do nothing), and then comments that his job (writing music and getting paid for it) is the best job ever. They don't have to just work they hate all the time but they still have some sort of responsibility.