Corporate America - Reed Deming

I grew up in a middle-class household

Every morning mom and dad would go to work

And I never had a second thought about it

'Cause that’s just the way things were

Got a little older and got married

Now my wife and I are doing what they did

But these sixty-hour weeks have got me wondering

What if Big Brother did not exist

What if no one could buy me

I’d be so high, I’m flying

I know I’ll get there one day

I hope that I get there one day

'Cause all I want is a little bit of freedom

Got big dreams and I wanna keep dreaming

So corporate America, please, spare me

Please, spare me, no, please, spare me

I don’t wanna see my life take shape yet

Not ready to decide my fate yet

Right now, it’s going to college and working till five

Hundreds of meetings and corporate life

Get a house and two kids then I’ll turn sixty-five

And retire and then spend the rest of my time

Doing the same old shit, yeah

Doing the same old shit

And when I die, that’s all I did

No, that won’t be the way I live

So I’m living in the moment

Struggling to keep focus

I’m keeping the doors wide open

Tryna stay up, keep floating

'Cause all I want is a little bit of freedom

Got big dreams and I wanna keep dreaming

So corporate America, please, spare me

Please, spare me, no, please, spare me

«You've gotta make the money

You’ve gotta make it faster

Don’t do what you love for a living

If it don’t make you no cash», un-

Fortunately that’s logical

Guess I can’t argue with that

But I just don’t wanna give up

Half of my life at it

No, don’t need to be whipping a foreign

Don’t need no ice on my neck, yeah

And I’m still working for corporate

But I still can’t get ahead, I

Wish I could take a break from

Tryna get all of this bread

all in debt

Yeah…

Don’t need to be whipping a foreign

But I’m still working for corporate

But I know I gotta do it

Oh, I know I gotta do it

(Oh, no, no, no)