We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

It Pays A Wage

from The Last Five Years by Spoony Bard

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

about

I happened to get a job working for a vast, soulless coffee-shop conglomerate the same week that two of my favourite independent venues were threatened with closure. This is basically a song I wrote to work through the guilt.

lyrics

What a way to smash the system!
Serving sub-standard coffee
In a company-branded cup to local library employees,
I'm sure some day I'll bring this multi-national to its knees
But while I'm waiting I guess I'll keep the produce percolating

'Cos it pays a wage
It helps to keep disaster from the door
And keep me sane
So long as I stay aware of who I'm working for
And remember that somewhere on the horizon there's a day
Where I won't have to do this any more

These times are no less testing
And the never-ending struggle
To keep body and soul together here is tearing me apart
I knew that this would never be a job to take to heart
When all that I'm achieving is turning up and leaving

But it pays a wage
It helps to keep disaster from the door
And keep me sane
So long as I stay aware of who I'm working for
And remember that somewhere on the horizon there's a day
When I won't have to do this any more

It pays a wage
It helps to keep disaster from the door
And keep me sane
So long as I stay aware of who I'm working for
And remember that somewhere on the horizon there's a day
When I don't have to do this any more…

credits

from The Last Five Years, released November 1, 2016

license

tags

about

Spoony Bard image

Spoony Bard Liverpool, UK

Huyton's half-fi finest, Spoony Bard dispenses occasional bursts of observational bedroom pop from a box-room on the A5080. Wrapping his tales of everyday awkwardness in jauntily individual arrangements and addictively alliterative wit, he has a tendency to get embarrassed when talking about himself at length. Like now. ... more

contact / help

Contact Spoony Bard

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

Spoony Bard recommends:

If you like Spoony Bard, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Seafood Sam joins the show to discuss his newest album, " Standing On Giant Shoulders".
listen now