Getting Work

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So I will walk this evening to the cellar
And I will try my best to stay afloat
And I will be standing 'til three in the morning
With a mouthful of terrible jokes

And you will criticize my awful timing
But I will still insist upon my skill
And I will be late for work in the morning
I’m just taking the time that you killed

And it isn’t as if things have gotten better
And it isn’t as if I am getting worse
And it isn’t as if I took the apple from your eye
And I bit it just to quench my own thirst

And it isn’t as if people think I’m funny
But what is being funny even for
My lines have made me forget what you gave me
When I was starting out in New York

And it isn’t as if I am getting work

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from Jake McKelvie & the Countertops, released June 24, 2012

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