9 to 5 Lyrics
Pour myself a cup of ambition
Yawn and stretch and try to come to alive
Jump in the shower and the blood starts pumpin'
Out on the street the traffic starts jumpin'
With folks like me on the job from 9 to 5
Barely gettin' by, it's all takin' and no givin'
They just use your mind and they never give you credit
It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it
9 to 5, for service and devotion
You would think that I would deserve a fat promotion
Want to move ahead but the boss won't seem to let me
I swear sometimes that man is out to get me!
You're just a step on the boss-man's ladder
But you got dreams he'll never take away
You're in the same boat with a lotta your friends
Waitin' for the day your ship'll come in
an' the tide's gonna turn and it's all gonna roll your way
Barely gettin' by, it's all takin' and no givin'
They just use your mind and you never get the credit
It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it
9 to 5, yeah they got you where they want you
There's a better life, and you dream about it, don't you?
It's a rich man's game no matter what they call it
And you spend your life puttin' money in his wallet
Barely gettin' by, it's all takin' and no givin'
They just use your mind and they never give you credit
It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it
There's a better life, and you dream about it, don't you?
It's a rich man's game no matter what they call it
And you spend your life puttin' money in his wallet
This is a romantic song written by someone who never got married and had kids or stayed together. Marriage isn't like this. Pretty soon after getting married, you have kids and either get a baby sitter or don't go out much. When you first get married, it's like this, just you and her. But after you start having kids, you realize how selfish all single people are, thinking about what they want and not having anyone to take care of.
Being a stay-at-home housewife is really different when you have a ton of kids and are usually pregnant.
Now-a-days, in the West (but not in the East, thankfully), almost everyone is Peter Pan and don't know how to grow up. They have a divorce before or after the first kid because they just don't get it. Then they make laws that make life more difficult for the people who actually stay married and have kids. The entire Western society now is geared around being single : large families have a rough time.
Most women in the West act like men, wear pants and go off to jobs, leaving their kids with the pedophiles that run the government indoctrination centers. They do this because "it's cool". Then, because there's women at work, people commit adultery and it causes stress to marriages. So the West is jettisoning the "old way" has made itself into the global village idiot. And at least in America - oy - jobs are more like 9am to 9am, perfect for eternally single people. Then there's a whole cottage industry feeding off the loneliness of single people. How the mighty have fallen. Escape.
It’s also not by Sheena Easton. This is the Dolly Parton song. 9 to 5 by Sheena Easton was called “Morning Train” in the US to avoid such confusion.