Workahol
Words and Music by Brian Berlin
Copyright © 2021 Brian Berlin. All rights reserved.
Twenty-sixty-six, the future conquest
Constellations of acne fail the entrance test
Boy eating fries like there’s no tomorrow
While the parents in the booth with the paper stack borrow
Archaeologist digging his own remains
Find half his broke heart ruled the golden chain
The person of interest ain’t that interesting
Lab cages open, let the animals sing
Anti-intelligentsia chant no no
Backstage view of the universe show
Indie adult complete with all the trappings
Don’t say it out loud ‘cause then it never happens
Every little thing on ya plate is corn
But a picture on a page, no past-tense porn
Rain
Drop a blue screen
Tall glass of workahol
Ignore, abort, retry, fail
(Got a new prescription)
Rain
Drop a blue screen
Tall glass of workahol
Ignore, abort, retry, fail
(Sprinkle salt on a bird tail)
Take a knee on my back, strange sun-dried raisin
When they gonna learn Ferris don’t need savin’?
Too high a price tag to engage society
Ten-pin strike suit, fabric of reality
Sometimes selfish, now and then altruistic
Before you drown down pay your dollar to the mystic
Date a vegetary, Dr. King’s not fakin’
Closet in the nightmare peelin’ rolls of bacon
Confidence crisis, day job blues
Disposable culture threw away my shoes
No head for a crown, won’t flip checkers
Don’t want to rule the world, just make a good record
Rain
Drop a blue screen
Tall glass of workahol
Ignore, abort, retry, fail
(Superglued to my manicurist)
Rain
Drop a blue screen
Tall glass of workahol
Ignore, abort, retry, fail
I don’t know, I don’t know what to feel
But I feel you, I feel you know what I mean
I don’t know, I don’t know what to feel
But I feel you, I feel you know what I mean
Rain
Drop a blue screen
Tall glass of workahol
Ignore, abort, retry, fail
(I like my air… conditioned)
Rain
Drop a blue screen
Tall glass of workahol
Ignore, abort, retry, failil
(Shout MacBeth from the cheap seats)
Rain
Drop a blue screen
Tall glass of workahol
Ignore, abort, retry, fail
(Used the wrong pronoun)