Slave To The Wage Lyrics

Lyric discussion by mistakexx 

Cover art for Slave To The Wage lyrics by Placebo

It seems to me someones stuck in a path that they dont want to be on, and if they try to get away they keep getting stuck in something else. Theyre sick of what theyre doing and every time they try to leave it they get lost..but im not sure

I think this song is about being a slave to money, as the name implies. It speaks in the first paragraph about how you could just run away from it all. Your boredom, whoring of the system, and in doing so throw away all your worries or cares. We worry everyday about our money, it's always on our minds. I think he's saying that if we stopped worrying or stopped caring about it we'd have better lives.

The chorus talks how we're all just rats in the race to die. You could say retirement I guess, but after retirement that's...