• Screeching Weasel
• Leo Sayer
• Jimmy Eat World
• Morning Runner
• Mack 10
• Naughty By Nature
• John Cale
• Kelly Rowland
• Jars Of Clay
• Lou Reed
• Bob Marley
• Dannii Minogue
• Gang Starr
• Patrik Fitzgerald
• Improper Behavior
• Kavana
• XTC

Work (x12)
I can't get up in the morning
I feel like a sap like somebody's fool
I work like a rat and I'm going insane
I know it ain't right and I know it ain't cool
So don't tell me (x3) what to do
Work (x12)
Do this get that I don't like it
Why make money if I can't spend it
Overtime I'm getting pissed off
I don't have a life - Hey boss fuck off!

Writers: Leo Sayer, Tom Snow & John Vastano
five days out of seven
eight hours of every one
I'm tryin' to buy a piece of heaven
but I'll be gone
before that heaven comes
work, work, work
who nees it?
it's all I ever seem to do
I'm killin' myself for a livin'
livin' the workin' man's blues
minute to minute
day after day
wherever I go it's always the same
I work a little longer
to make up my pay
but when the cheque comes along
they've taken half of it away
all the work, work, work
who nees it?
all I ever seem to do
you know I'm killin' myself for a livin'
I should be stayin' at home with you
city to city
all over the world
wherever I been to -- that's all I ever heard
you work a little longer
to double up on that pay
when the taxman comes along
they take half of it away
work, work, work
who nees it?
it's all I ever seem to do
I'm killin', killin' time for a livin'
livin' the workin' man's blues
yeah, it's all work! work! work! work!
that's all it is
killin' myself for a livin'
like drivin' a nail straight into my hand
I've been workin' my life away

If you only once would let me
Only just one time
Then be happy with the consequence
With whatever's gonna happen tonight
Don't think we're not serious
When's it ever not
The love we make is give and it's take
I'm game to play along
All I can say
I shouldn't say
Can we take a ride?
Get out of this place
While we still have time
oh oh, oh oh oh
oh oh, oh oh oh
All the best DJs are saving
Their slowest song for last
When the dance is through
Its me and you
Come on would it really be so bad
The things we think might be the same
But I won't fight for more
Its just not me to wear it on my sleeve
Count on that for sure
All I can say
I shouldn't say
Can we take a ride?
Get out of this place
While we still have time
You want to take a ride?
Get out of this place
While we still have time
Yeah - We still have time
oh oh (ahhhhhhhh)
oh oh (ahhhhhhhh)
oh oh (ahhhhhhhh)
oh oh (ahhhhhhhh)
Can't say I was never wrong
But some blame rests on you
Work and play they're never okay
To mix the way we do
All I can say
I shouldn't say
Can we take a ride?
Get out of this place
While we still have time
You want to take a ride?
Get out of this place
While we still have time
We still have time
oh oh, oh oh oh
oh oh, oh

Dear Sir,
We know what your about,
You cannot say,
We didn't see it,
'Cos we can see, that your slacking,
Well its another habit that your cracking,
Whats the movement if you don't move?
What have you got left to prove?
Im not sure, how to stick to the floor,
I smashed on to your ceiling,
Let me sleep awhile, cos I cannot stand,
Break my fingers, hold my hand
Whats the movement if you don't move?
What have you got left to prove?
And I'll write and I'll write,
But nothing here reminds me of you,
You left a post-it on your door,
Saying I don't wanna see you no more,
But sir, I know your lying,
This time I'll disappear, into my career,
Cos nothing in here reminds me of you.
Dear Sir, quietly slip away,
The last leaf fell we all saw it,
Cos we can see, that you flagging its not just your heels that your dragging,
Whats the movement if you don't move?
What have you got left to prove?
Whats the movement if you don't move?
What have you got left to prove?
And I'll write and I'll write,
But nothing here reminds me of you,
You left a post-it on your door,
"I don't wanna see you no more",
But sir I know your lying,
This time I'll disappear, into my career,

[Talking]
Nigga wanna hustle
Nigga wanna sell dope where we grow up nigga
Ride with me and learn something nigga
If not - stay away my playground nigga
Yeah! - this shit right here is for real hustle niggas
Real street niggas - y'all follow me
Squared niggas - kick back and listen how is shit really go
Uh!
[Verse One]
Cabbage work hoes goes spoke and pistols
Last in getting away hearin whistles
Scopin down map gestural back full of chips
A hot ass scraps ski mask and two in the clips
Scoop on 'em motophone let 'em know it's on
I pack use 'em draws homeboy - nigga we goners
Beep on 'em Mexican though - we won't work
No Baking Soda slides twenty on 'em for the dirt
Got 'em - strap on 'em my shell with ducktapes
See nervous - while the Greyhouse escpae across Interstate
Jumpin up in the friendly scotia down chicken weight
For the work show up - and really do - be straight
They pull up bread all the lookin flawless us a show dog
Twenty bird and rally car like she a mother law
Damn! - she'll need no duck the law
Bitch got us switch walkin with the work like motherfuck the law
[Hook]
That's the shit nigga ball fo'
How they dope that they wall fo'
Jumpin on ' em hoes
They floss the hoes
We carry choppers stole us on homies with calicos
With the funk kick - wishin y'all holy copy with those
Banged out, thanged out - everybody hangin' out
Whole crews anybody sayin we bust used
Go back - blast the gas about to shootin' us
For cabbage work hoes and hundred fo's
[Verse Two]
Now in the N and N.Y. talkin' to why dies with the bitch
And some load ki's me insider
It's now and never - turn back why should we
Let's turn this bitch upside down (how could we)
First to be unnoticed - I don't trust that bitch
She fine - but she mixed with rat the lil snitch
I don't feel right I know crass bustin bust pipe
And the fed I had up on punk ass snitch all night
Where we better do - is send that bitch to the ?
Take the ki's to the rally car and get that bitch the cap
She go be mad about it cause she getting cut out
But just let it know her job is done (bitch butt out)
Why we here for? - (nigga we here paper chasin')
Okay then - well let's made this put reservatoins
Bust - train or even train station
If you got motophone we can start this operation
[Hook]
That's the shit nigga ball fo'
How they dope that they wall fo'
Jumpin on 'em hoes
They floss the hoes
We carry choppers stole us on homies with calicos
With funk kick wishin' y'all holy copy with those
Banged out, thanged out - everybody hangin' out
Whole crews anybody sayin' we bust used
Go back - blast the gas about to shootin' us
For cabbage work hoes and hundred hoes
[Verse Three]
Now I'm the KING OF ROCK - for my work
One time shoot the block I did my sack about the dirt
Like a dream team - both feams tryin' around me like impressed
Takin' fifth G horse and spork the dope 'port
Like a hell is seen hot for shit - I ain't trippin'
Got folks in the bushes with the chop chop - so I ain't slippin'
None of these out of town C's and Beems
Niggas playin 'em gueens street they never seen the pontrees
Hobbed on the plane - I'm back on stinky greens
And Inglewood floss and faded the whole scene
1-0 back Ol' T - dope grindin'
Fresh gear, big wheels, jewels shinnin'
So I hit Shall Sunday - watchin' with low-low's hot
Me and my N.O. partners - on the strippin' new drops
Bentleys, Warreys, Benzes, Hummers
With none full of fall for the next twenty Summers
[Hook]
That's the shit nigga ball fo'
How they dope that they wall fo'
Jumpin on 'em hoes
They floss the hoes
We carry choppers stole us on homies with calicos
With the funk kick wishin' y'all holy copy with those
Banged out, thanged out - everybody hangin' out
Whole crews anybody sayin' we bust used
Go back - blast the gas about to shootin' us
For cabbage work hoes and hundred fo's
[Mack 10 {talking}]
And there you have it - that's how it go
From top to bottom - half heart, half money nigga
Oh - don't get it fucked up
I still got money for my first trip out of town
Haha!... you dig!

featuring Castro Mag
* also appears on the _Butter_ Soundtrack and Mag's "Hustlaz Heaven"
[Mag] (Castro) "Car Wash sample"
"Hey!"
Butter.
"One of us! Right away!"
"Work"
Uh where all my hustlers?
(Where them thugs at?)
All my ballers.
What let's do it like this. (Get up!)
Uh what.
(Indiana Indiana!)
"Work"
Mag in this muth yo.
Killa Castro from Queens trigga Treach.
(New Jeru, Dirty Jerz.)
[Mag]
Well can you get it like I get it, I got to get my blood
Known for slangin yayo and part the lick with my thugs
Fuck you, fuck your crew fool and all that shit
Bitch, it's a new nigga on the premesis
"Work"
Ah, puttin it down like I knows to
What, splittin these hata's wigs like I'm supposed to
Whenever you, wanna act the fool, and come and test
Get that ak slug through your vest
Forget your dog, get bucked
Wind up and see you with all the garbage stuck
Now you in the depths of Hell, feel like damn it ain't my lucky day
Never shoulda looked my way, motherfucker
Don't trust your bitch ass fool as far as I can thrust ya
Don't make no sudden moves fool and I won't have to bust ya
Trigga Treach he got his pistol do
We puttin in work from here to Russia fool
So what the fuck y'all here to do
"Work"
Huh, and it's on like that
Motherfucker and it's on like that
"I puts in work"
And it's on like that
Yo dog I hope you cleaned your strap
"Uh huh, cuz I puts in work"
[Castro]
Fatal how the hood'll hate you, caught up in drama
Colors and ganja like black autototes for armor
Millies and macks never the same pocket
Kept his phillies and crack how the streets rock it
Switch em, b cases like he fathered the system
Organized block cinemas away from the prison
With souls, lost rows and so on
Fall victim to the streets and so much can go wrong
Rebels meet crumble and majesties for salaries
Out of towners and goose downers introduce pounders
A lay loot for power evil roots shoot through cowards
Lettin other niggas just regulate they hours
Coke or chronic, philly roll millie by his scrotum
Barrel x to g packs
Never got along with cops, like it was Brett Favre and D backs
It's how rap cats believe that
"Just puttin in work"
And it's on like that
Castro, you know it's on like that
"Huh huh huh huuuh work"
And it's on like that
Yeah y'all we gettin it on like that
"Puttin it in y'all, puttin it in y'all"
[Treach]
Check it, I get deep voice like Barry
All you keep, naw you keep
Forgot I got permit to carry
All you sleep
Look at me, his face I'll bury
I look at you and say that's what happens when cousins marry
"Work"
Hate that funk shit, don't show up
Tore up from the floor up
My gat's so fat it needs to loose weight like hold up
On the run huh, it might be bailin in a Bronco
I be layin low from Rocko
In a condo outside of Toronto
How I feel about y'all poppin shit
Like a constipated port a lot of noise but you ain't droppin shit
This is me here, it ain't no other man
Always into somebody's business like you was (?)
"Work"
Nigga I puts in like ten men
Kick up more dust than dirt
Drinkin more gin than Vin
Well see no El Nino or ghetto tsunami
Couldn't drop up on me so we got to fuck over Tommy
"I puts in work"
I puts in work, and it's on like that
Motherfucker with them snakes and rats
I puts in work
"Work"
And it's on like that
Hope you motherfuckers watch your back
Cuz I puts in work
"Work"
"New Jerus y'all Dirty Jerz y'all"
"Work"
"Ah ow, Indiana comin on through"
"Work"
"Oh, what it mean y'all comin from Queens"
"Work"
"Hey, put it down for my town"

Words and music: Lou Reed & John Cale
Andy was a Catholic, the ethic ran through his bones
He lived alone with his mother, collecting gossip and toys
Every Sunday when he went to Church
He'd kneel in his pew and say, "It's just work,
all that matters is work."
He was a lot of things, what I remember most
He'd say, "I've got to bring home the bacon, someone's got to bring home the roast."
He'd get to the factory early
If you'd ask him he'd tell you straight out
It's just work, the most important thing is work
No matter what I did it never seemed enough
He said I was lazy, I said I was young
He said, "How many songs did you write?"
I'd written zero, I'd lied and said, "Ten."
"You won't be young forever
You should have written fifteen"
It's work, the most important thing is work
It's work, the most important thing is work
"You ought to make things big
People like it that way
And the songs with the dirty words - record them that way"
Andy liked to stir up trouble, he was funny that way
He said, "It's just work, all that matters is work"
Andy sat down to talk one day
He said decide what you want
Do you want to expand your parameters
Or play museums like some dilettante
I fired him on the spot, he got red and called me a rat
It was the worst word that he could think of
And I've never seen him like that
It's just work, I thought he said it's just work
Work, he said it's just work
Andy said a lot of things, I stored them all away in my head
Sometimes when I can't decide what I should do
I think what would Andy have said
He'd probably say you think too much
That's 'cause there's work that you don't want to do
It's work, the most important thing is work
Work, the most important thing is work

This ain't go be easy
Uh
You got it, you got it
Put it in
[Verse 1]
Tables turned into a situation
Now you standing in my face and you been patiently waiting
Fumbling over words, forget the conversation
Thinking maybe we could make the combination
Wanna see me lose my breathe, wanna hear me moan
Better be ready, will and able when we get along
You was talking tough up on in the telephone
So you better put it in when we get it on
No turning back from this party
Put you through enough to come play (hey)
And ain't no coming down from this high
My love don't go nowhere less I say
Look at what you got yourself into
Best take advantage, be all that you can be
Best take advantage, see all that you can see
Cause this could be a less opportunity that won't be
[Chorus]
Put it in
Check it baby, get it baby, check it baby, get it (work)
Do it baby, do-do it baby get it (put it in)
Check it baby, get it baby, check it baby, get it (work)
Do it baby, do-do it baby get it (go hard)
Check it baby, get it baby, check it baby, get it (work)
Do it baby, do-do it baby get it
Don't come around, keep on lettin me down
You gotta get it all the way in, I wanna see you work
[Verse 2]
Now you looking like you looking for an explanation
Is the curves on my body for you motivation
Skip the petty needs, No time for complication
Use both hands to make sure I reach my destination
Better leave a good impression fore you hit the door
Cause you don't want me talking bout your business on the low
You show it off, I had to fit you in my schedule
So you better put it on me when it's time to go
No turning back from this party
Put you through enough to come play (hey)
And ain't no coming down from this high
My love don't go nowhere less I say
Look at what you got yourself into
Best take advantage, be all that you can be
Best take advantage, see all that you can see
Cause this could be a less opportunity that won't be
[Chorus]
Put it in
Check it baby, get it baby, check it baby, get it (work)
Do it baby, do-do it baby get it (put it in)
Check it baby, get it baby, check it baby, get it (work)
Do it baby, do-do it baby get it (go hard)
Check it baby, get it baby, check it baby, get it (work)
Do it baby, do-do it baby get it
Don't come around, keep on lettin me down
You gotta get it all the way in, I wanna see you work
[Bridge]
I ain't excepting no excuses baby (no)
Don't brag about it if you useless baby (no)
You better blow me away, make a girl wanna stay
At your spot for another round
It's your chance to prove, Don't forget your moves
There's nothing to lose, but me
[Chorus (x2)]

Just in case, I will leave my things packed
So I can run away
I cannot trust these voices I don't have a line of prospects that can give some kind of peace
There is nothing left to cling to that can bring me sweet release
I have no fear of drowning
It's the breathing that's taking all this work
Do you know what I mean when I say, "I don't want to be alone"?
What I mean when I say, "I don't want to be alone"
Empty spaces with shadows hit by streetlights
Warnings signs and weight of tired conversations
In the absence of a shoulder, in the abscess of a thief
On the brink of this destruction, on the eve of bittersweet
Now all the demons look like prophets and I'm living out
Every word they speak, every word they speak
Do you know what I mean when I say, "I don't want to be alone"?
What I mean when I say, "I don't want to be alone"
What I mean when I say, "I don't want to be alone"
Do you know what I mean when I say, "I don't want to be alone"?
What I mean when I say, "I don't want to be alone"
What I mean when I say, "I don't want to be alone"
Alone, alone, I don't want to be alone
I have no fear of drowning
It's the breathing that's taking all this work

Andy was a Catholic
the ethic ran through his bones
He lived alone with his mother
collecting gossip and toys
Every Sunday when he went to Church
he'd kneel in his pew and say
It's work
all that matters is work
He was a lot of things
what I remember most he'd say
I've got to bring home the bacon
someone's got to bring home the roast
He'd get to the factory early
if you'd ask him he'd tell you straight out
It's work
No matter what I did it never seemed enough
he said I was lazy, I said I was young
He said, How many songs did you write
I'd written zero, I'd lied and said, Ten
You won't be young forever
you should have written fifteen
It's work
You ought to make things big
people like it that way
And the songs with the dirty words
make sure your record them that way
Andy liked to stir up trouble
he was funny that way
He said, It's just work
Andy sat down to talk one day
he said decide what you want
Do you want to expand your parameters
or play museums like some dilettante
I fired him on the spot
he got red and called me a rat
It was the worst word that he could think of
and I've never seen him like that
It's work
I thought he said it's just work
Andy said a lot of things
I stored them all away in my head
Sometimes when I can't decide what I should do
I think what would Andy have said
He'd probably say you think too much
that's 'cause there's work that you don't want to do
It's work
the most important thing is work
It's work
the most important thing is work

We, Jah people, can make it work;
Come together and make it work, yeah!
We can make it work;
We can make it work.
Five days to go: working for the next day;
Four days to go: working for the next day;
Say we got: three days to go now: working for the next day;
Two days to go (ooh): working for the next day, yeah.
Say we got: one day to go: working for the -
Every day is work - work - work - work!
We can make it work;
We can make it work.
/Short guitar break/
We, Jah people, can make it work;
Come together and make it work.
We can make it work;
We can make it work.
We got: five days to go work, oh! - working for the next day, eh!
Four days to go: working for the -
Three days to go now: working for the next day, yeah!
Two days to go: working for the next day
Say we got: one day to go now: working for -
Every day is work, wotcha-wa!
(Work!) I work in the mid-day sun;
(Work!) I work till the evening come!
(Work!) If ya ain't got nothing to do!
(Work!) Ooh-ooh-ooh-oo-oo-ooh!
(Work!) /fadeout/
[*Sleeve notes only:
We got some work for you.]

'Cause that's just my style (get up)
Work work work mm mm, work work work
Work work work ah ha, work work work
(Work) I get busy (work), good and plenty
(Work) I'm just here to work your body (work)
(Work) don't you get it (work) I ain't with it
(Work) I'm just here to work your body
Drivin' in my brand new Benz 190, my home girl Sheila
She's coolin' righ beside me, the young girlies get upset
Because they can't keep their boys in check
Relax 'cause that's not where my head is at
I don't need guys like these, turn up the music
And I'll show you how to do a jam
(Ow) I get busy (oh) (good and plenty)
(Oh) I'm just here to work your body
(Work) I ain't with it (yeah) don't you get it
(Ow) I'm just here to work your body
Work work work your body (get up)
Work work work your body (get up)
Work work work your body, work your body
It's about seven o'clock, when my service comes on
It's my manager saying, Dannii (pick up the phone)
Don't forget the sound check, you have an interview next
Jumped in my limousine, popped in my album cassette (aw)
Then I stepped (oh yeah) on the stage (oh) turn up the music
And I'll show you how to do a jam
(Work) I get busy (work) Good and plenty
(Work) I'm just here to work your body
(Oh yeah work) (work) don't you get it
(Work) I ain't with it (work) I'm just here to work your body
(Work work work your body) work your body
(Work work work your body) work your body
(Work work work your body) work your body
(Work work work your body) work your body
That's just the kind of life I live ooh
(Kind of life I live ooh oh)
I'm a sassy young lady and my all I give
(Gotta give gotta give gotta give oh)
'Cause that's just my style, mmm (get up get up get up)
(Work) I get busy (work) Good and plenty
(Work) I'm just here to work your body
(Work) don't you get it (work) I ain't with it (oh baby)
(Work)I'm just here to work your body
(Work) I get busy (work) Good and plenty
(Work) I'm just here to work (work work ooh)
(Work) don't you get it (work) I ain't with it
(Work)I'm just here to work your body
Work work work your body
(Work work work your body)
(Work work work your body)
(Work work work your body)
(Work work work your body)
Say Ai (yo) cut it up right there
'Cause I, 'cause I, 'cause I, 'cause I, 'cause I
'Cause I, 'cause I, 'cause I, 'cause I, 'cause I
'Cause that's just my style
'Cause, 'cause, 'cause, 'cause, 'cause
'Cause, 'cause, 'cause, 'cause, 'cause
'Cause that's just my style (work)
[AD LIB TO FADE]

Are you working
What kind of work do you do
Uhh...
( quot;Boy, what is it you want to do when you grow up)
Aiyyo I'm gonna be on ti-dop, that's all my eyes can see
Victory is mine, yeah surprisingly
I've been laying, waiting for your next mistake
I put in work, and watch my status escalate
Now I'ma start collectin props, connectin plots
networkin like a conference, cause the nonsense is yet to stop
Jakes shake me down, haters wanna take me down
Break me down, CLAP all they heard was the sound
Yo I scoped it out, I took your weak dream and choked it out
Your bitch don't really got no ass, she just poked it out
on the deelow, I'm sayin, you versus me though
We can do this shit right here, in front of your people
See time is money kid, and BS walks
And to me, it's funny kid when you meet heads talk
I see Feds stalk, they wanna dig up the dirt
Son is it me they hawk, cause I be puttin in work Son
Aiyyo I'm gonna be on ti-dop, that's all my eyes can see
Victory is mine, yeah surprisingly
I've been laying, waiting for your next mistake
I put in work, and watch my status escalate
You cornballs get stonewalled, blackballed I own y'all
The veteran, runnin my plan I'm the better man
Crazy raw, doin my job like the mob
Blazin y'all, and disappearin in the fog
or a mist, and chicks can't resist what I kick
They be beggin for attention or some more of the dillznick
Word up baby, someone may have to get hurt up baby
Shit is mad shady, but I got to get the gravy
Platinum respect like the force of a tech
keep you hittin the deck, feelin heat in your chest
Bangin your thoughts with the hot onslaught
A kid got shot on the spot for goin where he should not
Viciously, I make history, instantly
Those other lame ass loser ass niggaz, they can't fuck with me
I'm doin my thing now, to lamp later on
Paid in the shade, with some fly gators on
But now I'm grimy as they get, mud on my pants and shirt
I bet you niggaz out here know, I be puttin in work
Aiyyo I'm gonna be on ti-dop, that's all my eyes can see
Victory is mine, yeah surprisingly
I've been laying, waiting for your next mistake
I put in work, and watch my status escalate
*DJ Premier cuts and scratches quot;For the qualified pros quot;*

Ohh.. Time...
Time..
They say timing... is everything
But nothing you control
'Cause there's always tomorrow
But tomorrow never knows
It's 1 day at a
[Chorus:]
Time keeps running away
No matter what's left behind
It keeps on moving
Tomorrow is not in today
And all of your yesterdays
Are only a matter of
Time.. time..
And the journey of a lifetime
Will begin with one step
When you're climbing up that mountain
It's so easy to forget
It's one step at a time
[Chorus:]
Time keeps running away
No matter what's left behind
It keeps on moving
Tomorrow is not in today
And all of your yesterdays
Are only a matter of
Time
Keeps running away
No matter what's left behind
It keeps on moving
Tomorrow is not in today
And all of your yesterdays
Are only a matter of
Time
Oh time oh...
Whoa.. Oh... Whoa.. Ohh.. Whoa...!
Hah! Ooooh.. I said now
[Chorus til end:]
Time keeps running away
No matter what's left behind
It keeps on moving
Tomorrow is not in today
And all of your yesterdays
Are only a matter of
Time

we can't be a normal person anymore because we have to work for the supermarket.
that's not normal i want to be a formel 1 driver and not a cheeseseller oh meller i
'm not german and say keller it's like i work for the state but it comes a bright
car to fetch us and bring us to the next superstars concert.
I don't want to work...(he don't want to work) 2x ..yeah... I don't want to work...
Please don't write anything about me because it might get famous. I often drink beer
it's near to the work and the boss can see me freeze.let us go i won't do it again,i
told my boss but he only look at he's jesus-cross
I don't want to work...(he don't want to work) 2x ..yeah... I don't want to work...
Now my boss fire me and i sit on the street and freeze..

Don't try to understand the way I'm feeling now
And don't misread my words cos what I say is how
I see our future baby, no question or no maybe
A change has gotta come someday
The way it was before, can't carry on no more
This one way love affair
I know you don't seem to care, now tell me if I'm wrong
For lovin' to be strong you got to
Work, just to make it work
You gotta work to make it work
Nothing comes so easy, got to
Work, just to make it work
You gotta work to make it work
Yeh Yeh
I saw it long ago, I realised you'd never show me
The way you feel inside, you'd always choose to hide
We got a future baby, no question or no maybe
A change is gonna come right away
I gotta make you see it's the only way to be
No more one way love affair
And now you know I really care
The time has come to pass if love is gonna last
(Repeat chorus)
If we could reach an understanding you'd see that it's much better
Than livin' our lives on our own
I know it seems old-fashioned, but baby that's no reason
To run away from love
Cos there's no-one above you
(Repeat chorus to fade)

Keep your fingers busy
Mentally or physically
What four-letter word
D’you know like ...
Look at me smile
Look at me doing their
Work
Y’see me shuffle in the dirt
My how I sweat
But I don’t mind
Cause it’s work
You got me rolling up my shirt
There’s all my old friends
Sat by the fountain drinking beer
Their days have no starts and no ends
They drift into pub nights with no
Promise for tomorrow
All that they want is some
Work
Work
Look at me smile
Look at me polish these
Tools
Am I breaking all the rules?
A cycle like that
I don’t want to be late for school
Well it’s night school
Now all my new friends
Sit in their [site] huts drinking tea
My day has no start and no ends
Drifts into whole nights in my
Coffin by the fireside
Bugger this game
I know who’s to blame
And that’s
Work
Aw, work
Keep your fingers busy
Mentally or physically
What four-letter word
D’you know like
Oh! work, work
Oh! work, work
I’m back with my old friends
Sat by the brunel drinking beer
Don’t want this to ever end
We’re living in fear of being
Mizzled by a new myth
Work
I don’t want to go to work
Work
I don’t want to go to work