i m like nine minutes away from finishing my nine hour shift and wishin i was gone nine hours ago cause nine hours wasted tossin back of this chicken i coulda written nine verses just in time for the show slacker mindstate livin on time that s borrowed my motto s i ll stop procrastinatin tomorrow i took the sorrow from the windchimes left happiness lonesome and strung up sarcasm to make the melody wholesome from my lungs to my feet i m breathin everything i speak and now they chargin for oxygen and the bill s due next week i ll be a day late and a buck short story of my life i wish my pay rate was much more duckin swords in the rat race i didn t apply for runnin towards something that s fake and thinkin why for they shuttin doors right in my face and sittin high horse is a car and a dope place somethin to die for this is my war so now i m schemin on plots to make my pockets swell simple livin is a bitch but damn i do it well some are fortunate to make it and some of em fail some locomotives push through and some of em get derailed schemin on plots hey hey simple livin is a bitch hey hey some are fortunate to make it hey hey some locomotors push through hey hey  i lead a crocodile mile lifestyle i run and slide but when it s time to collide with the bump i always bail cause i m not ready for that dive or that silly nine to five solidified career option a hop skip and a leap away from rock star and not too far away from fillin pop s shoes the idyllic hard workin type of calloused hands complete with wife kids dog house and picket fence that s nonsense i m convinced i m built for better things and won t settle for the empty smile that cheddar brings it seems like i m workin hard simply cause it s what they say i have to do you graduate and then you either get a job or you go to school 12 years wasn t enough that s more than half of my life spent tryin to make the world accept me plus i ve got the papers saying that i made it through now i m working 2 jobs 3 with music and you don t respect me fuck it i ll retire now you ll work until you re 62 and 