[verse 1] year-end closing on the horizon, coffee cup and quiet rage my accountant asks so nicely: “can you send the receipts you saved?” i click “download receipt” like a good little man and the file name is: receipt two eight two four, three two three eight, again [pre-chorus] no date, no vendor, no clue where it belongs it’s two thousand twenty-five, how are you still getting this wrong [chorus] give me the date in the filename give me the month, the year, the day not “receipt dot pdf” like you’re trying to ruin my day every saas is the same stupid everyone skips this one thing and i’m sitting here renaming files like a tragic little king [verse 2] “do you have the docs for lemon squeezy payouts?” you say yeah i do, but they sound like bingo when i try to file away receipt two six nine three, eight eight four seven receipt two nine four two, zero nine nine five, welcome to my personal hell again [pre-chorus] you can ship ai features, “next gen” buttons, fancy flows but naming a pdf with a date? nope, guess that’s too hard for you pros [chorus] give me the date in the filename give me the month, the year, the day not “receipt two five four three, zero five eight nine” — i’m drowning either way every saas is the same stupid everyone skips this one thing and i’m sitting here renaming files like a tragic little king [bridge] i want something simple, normal, sane: two zero two five, ten, fourteen lemon squeezy receipt nineteen dollars dot pdf is that really impossible or does nobody care until accounting starts to scream [breakdown] i upload everything and then i get duplicates because you can’t even name a file [final chorus] give me the date in the filename give me the month, the year, the day add vendor, currency, amount — just the bare minimum, okay every saas is the same stupid everyone skips this one thing so i’ll sing these stupid numbers till it’s springtime in bookkeeping [outro] receipt two eight four two, three six eight two receipt two four one nine, five nine six six receipt two two three four, zero one eight nine i’m not a person anymore i’m a filename machine
