9 to 6 (A Modern 9 to 5)

Tumble out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen

Check my phone to see what I’m missing

Scroll for a minute so I can get my fix

Rush to get ready and rush out the door

Don’t got enough time, yeah I need more

But there ain’t no time when your job is 9 to 6

Workin 9 to 6

Yeah one whole hour later

Than our parents did

But the wages don’t get better

They just suck like ticks

And they keep on gettin’ fatter

But the blood won’t trickle

Down the corporate ladder

9 to 6

For an hour we don’t get paid

Yeah that’s their trick

No they don’t count the lunch break

Build their rocket ships

While employees still go hungry

Keep us strapped for cash

So we come back every Monday

They sell you a dream in the form of a FAFSA

Gotta go to college but nobody asked ya

If ya know how much that tuition really is

Hard to find work once ya got your diploma

So now the men at the big bank own ya

For a choice you made when you were just a kid

Workin 9 to 6

Just to line the boardroom pockets

Yeah we make em rich

When we ain’t even on the docket

A whole bunch of pricks

Who worship their own ‘profit’

And now they own nearly

All of Congress

Hold up! I still can’t pay my bills! I also need to work…

8 to 1

Yeah one job just don’t cut it

The grind’s never done

Workin’ til we kick the bucket

Got no time for fun

My free time’s just for sleepin’

Cuz I gotta be up for my

Morning meeting

At my 9 to 6

Yeah one whole hour later

Than our parents did

But the wages don’t get better

They just suck like ticks

And they keep on gettin’ fatter

But the blood won’t trickle

Down the corporate ladder

9 to 6