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Busy Beaver

from Elementary Ego by English Minor

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lyrics

Sleepy Beaver, wake you up,
A busy life awaits, with wood to chuck...

Morning coffee, computer power,
You just started, don’t look sour;
Resumes and applications,
Cover letters, communications;
Interviews with jolly smiles,
Kissing ass and rubbing elbows;
Hooray you’re hired, (now) get to work,
Don’t forget: network, network!
Shake your keister up the ladder,
Higher pay makes life more better;
You’re at the top now, salutations,
Your boss dropped dead, congratulations!
Hire people, fire people,
Morons, peons, bottom-feeders;
Put your feet up on your desk,
Blink your eyes, you’ve earned your breath...

Busy Beaver, chucking chief,
Toil long for the good life;
You will rest, when you are dead,
Until then, chuck-chuck your dread.

Power naps and whiskey sours,
Can’t stop now, it’s working hours;
Consider image: catch a woman,
Marry her and make some children;
Buy a big house, with a mortgage,
A hot new car, with good gas mileage;
Another job, another city,
A mid-life crisis, (but) living pretty;
Fancy dinners with the wifey,
Expensive shit makes kiddies happy;
Oops you’re divorced, so much for love,
Your kids hate you, ungrateful dolts;
Retire with pension, benefits,
Cash-in investments, fuck those kids;
Buy your own small, private island,
Kick up the sand while you wait to kick the bucket...

Sleepy Beaver, rest your head,
Your life’s ended, chucked wood well spent...

Busy Beaver! Busy Beaver!
Chuck, chuck-chuck, chuck, chuck-chuck, etc.

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from Elementary Ego, released September 15, 2018
Music by Corey Ball

Lyrics by August Lysy

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English Minor Chicago, Illinois

A songwriting duo who, after many (many) attempts, have been unable to formulate a bio of just the right amount of sincerity and irony so as to succinctly capture the essence of their musical sensibilities.

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