The Fiction Years E
Skunk Jugglers
Living a Lie · Workplace Alienation · Career Identity Crisis · Defiant Power Pop
#VERSE
Put on my white button-down
With a paisley silk tie
Got in the car for my first day
As a corporate guy
Waved my badge at the door
And walked inside
They showed me to a cubicle
And that’s when I died
#PRE-CHORUS
What have I signed up for?
This feels grotesque
Squeezed in a five-by-five box
At a melamine desk
#VERSE
I stared at the computer
And it stared back a me
Seemed to mock my sullen gaze
In this new reality
#PRE-CHORUS
What have I signed up for?
I’m just a desk jockey now
No longer true to myself
Got to get out somehow... but...
#CHORUS
I’m stuck here living in the fiction years
Being someone I’m not until the smoke clears
#INSTRUMENTAL
#VERSE
I was born to be creative
I was born to be unique
Now I’m a cog in the wheels
And I’m starting to freak
#PRE-CHORUS
Trapped in this boring role
I was never meant to play
Sold my soul to the god
Of Almighty Payday
#CHORUS
I’m stuck here living in the fiction years
Being someone I’m not until the smoke clears
In a haze of disillusionment, such a mistake
Trapped in the fiction years, and my life is fake
#BRIDGE
How... long...
Can I possibly exist?
Nine-to-five everyday
Want to scream and raise a fist
How... long...
Can I be a corporate dude?
Close to losing my shit
And telling them to get screwed
#INSTRUMENTAL
#PRE-CHORUS
What have I signed up for?
My soul needs to fly free
Got to stop living this fiction
And get back to being me... but...
#CHORUS
I’m stuck here living in the fiction years
The person I was no longer lives here
I’m a ghost of myself with a spirit that aches
Trapped in the fiction years, and my life is fake
#CHORUS
Yeah, I’m stuck here living in the fiction years
Being someone I’m not until the smoke clears
This haze of disillusionment, such a mistake
Trapped in the fiction years, and my life is fake
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