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lyrics
10 Work for a living
Chorus
Work for a living , back to the rhythm, giving maximum actual action and time, oh lord won’t help me get me something , lord wont you help me get me something/
Verse
Work for a living, work for myself, Work for my girl bitching ain’t no food on the shelf/ Work hard for the rents due now its 3 weeks late, work harder again to meet my release date/ There never seems to be enough hours in the day/ there never seems to be enough money in my pay/ I’m a slave to the rhythm, a slave to the man a slave to my debt I open bills and say damn!/ Now it’s back to the grind, I’m a blue collar scholar which means lacking in mind / So I do, do a lot of thinking back in the time where at school where I sorta kinda left it behind/ Now it’s all on me, can’t really blame my olds but they both told me Son get an education work hard and do your time/ but my mind was occupied by making beats and writing rhymes/
Chorus
Work, let me break it down a little bit, Work, let me break it down so it will fit/ Do I live for my work or work so I live do I work for a living so I only exist/ Do I get a 9 to 5 just so I can just survive, Basic working and slowly killing myself until I die/ Lying to myself about who I really be just so I can be accepted as part of society? / Fuck that/
I got one life to live and ain’t no second round I want to live it full why you want watered down/ I’m way afraid of a mundane day then giving my all to my soul with no pay/ Now, I can’t pray for what I need because I don’t believe, I cannot wait for an escape I’d rather up and leave/ I’ll take an opportunity and see what I achieve, if a mistake I make, I’ll learn it right just pardon me/ It ain’t rocket surgery this is plain fact, it ain’t a secret in a book or some lame app/ It’s basically as clichéd as its gets, if you follow your dreams believe you’ll make it, step/ In the right direction, why you heading with the status quo ? When the sky’s the limit, rise up in it, watch out down below/ If I make that’s a bonus guess it pays off and it shows if I fail then I fail well at least I had a go/ Come on!
I gotta, work for a living do what I want to do, be what I want to be , see what I want to see!
credits
from Audiobiography,
released August 20, 2013
Produced by Simplex
supported by 6 fans who also own “Work For A Living”
Awesome Album, completely different to Hell Hath No Fury, caught me by surprise, and what a surprise!.
This album is yet another example of exactly how high skilled Helen is as an emcee and a writter.
I was hanging out for this album and it delivered way more than i anticipated
Guest spots rip too, mad original beats.
Unreal Helen Earth, i love it when you do what you do Mick