Work Work Work

[Intro – chaotic layers] Work work work work (go) Clock in clock out (now) Work work work work (again again) What’s it about (tell me now) [Verse 1 – Voice 1, ultra-dense + switches] Wake with a weight and a head full of static a body automatic the habit is tragic I’m back in the pattern of packing the hours and stacking the minutes I’m trapped in the lattice of time that is sliced into fractions and traded for cash but the value is absent Eight into eight and it bleeds into overtime overdefined by a line that was drawn for compliance I grind in alignment assigned to a role that is slowly erasing the shape of a life I designed in my mind Switch pace double time never offline running on a deadline tethered to a timeline better keep the head down never let the breath out work till the lights out rinse and repeat now (Hype: go go go / keep pace / don’t stop) [Verse 2 – Voice 2, machine flow + triplets] Tick tick tick in a grid get fitted every minute get measured and digitized living divided by tasks I deliver while parts of my personal life minimized Triplet flow Family calling but I gotta stall it gotta keep the quality high on the file and the pile is growing and moments are going and nobody slowing the cycle is closing in Back to straight Dreams in a folder archived and ignored labeled as later but later gets torn from the present the essence is drained for the payment replacing the person I was at the core (Hype: stay on / locked in / no break) [Verse 3 – Voice 3, chaotic + elastic + bursts] Run run run in a loop no exit full speed living in a system metric big world spinning but I’m stuck static same route mapped in a grid schematic Switch triplet burst Time slipping clipping flipping never gripping anything I wanted out of living everything is driven by a number never giving me a second just to figure what I’m missing Back to chaos Heart says move but the clock says no brain says go but the shift says go body says stop but the pace won’t slow whole life locked in a narrow flow (Hype: break out / right now / wake up) [Chorus – ALL voices, fully interwoven + overlapping] We should be out there living alive (alive alive) Not just surviving to barely survive (survive survive) Seeing the world with our own eyes now (right now right now) Not stuck repeating the same old line (overlap rap) Not just work work work all day Not just give our lives away (overlap melody) Time with our kids hearing what they say Time with our elders before they fade (layered) We want space we want breath we want life we want more Not a clock not a task not a locked steady door [Beat Drop – silence hit] (…cut…) [Break – whispered layers] Work work work All day all night Is this living Or just losing time [Final Chorus – maximal chaos + harmony + rap blend] We should be out there living alive (alive alive) Breathing in more than survive survive (survive) Building a life that we actually feel Not chasing a system that never is real (overlap rapid rap) No more work work work alone Break the cycle take control (overlap melody high) We want time to live and grow We want something real to hold (full stack) Raise our kids with time to share Hear their thoughts and truly care Sit with elders learn their years Not lose them all to work and fear (final chant layered) No more work work work No more work work work We are more than what we’re worth We are more than what we’re worth