If I Called You In
Skirmish: Totally Titular, Volume 3... (@robinleaf)Liner Notes
#folk #protest
Starting from the #titular suggestion “If I Called You,” I drew a blank for 50 minutes, then arrived at this idea from today’s headlines and hacked it together in 15 minutes.
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There’s a problem with work that has no direction
No sense of meaning or tradition
Only a sheet of paper that says we have a mission
Here on Earth
Our ethics officer keeps us from paying bribes
But takes a little extra on the side
At least we can say that we tried
For what it’s worth
If I called you in to the office
To work all weekend on a problem caused
By Microsoft in Redmond
And everyone and no one
Would you still agree that I’m the boss
Sometimes in work it seems you have no options
I guess that’s what happens when you have no conscience
And you go through life being unconscious
To the truth
It felt like we were tied up to the mast
It was a pretty good racket if we could make it last
But now it seems like our time is past
And here’s the proof
If I called you in to the office
To work all weekend on a problem caused
By Microsoft in Redmond
And everyone and no one
Would you still agree that I’m the boss