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This song is about the Albertan mentality of working your entire life away to pave parking lots. To perpetuate this growth. To grow up and pick up a shovel.

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Unskilled labour trade. Faithful peon obeys. No other option for pay. At least it's not minimum wage. I had different dreams for life, without rank and order in mind. But, I'm still putting in time. Most days I'm alright. Digging holes into the earth to make someone else rich. Down on all fours for table scraps. "You're lucky you have work, you son of a bitch." How can one person's work be worth so much more? At what point does our income become us? Many say I'm pathetic. Why the fuck can't I make it? Opportunities aren't taken. "Where's your career orientation?" Well, that kind of life ain't for me, filling in quotas for pay sheets. Keep the site clean. I'm toiling daily for nothing. "It's a dog-eat-dog world and I'm gonna take what's mine. There's money to be made. Don't stop pushing, not on company time." There's not much difference between me and the machines. We both show up day after day at the next worksite. I'll continue to punch in late. Not because I don't know better, but because I can't be bothered. I know this game is fucked, these pipes are all corroded. Streamline your efficiency, downsize your staff. Make yourself useful, forget how to laugh. You keep the headache, you keep the cash. I'll keep my pride and my sore back. Forget your old interests, there's no time for that. Breathe in that diesel, you'll learn to love the smell.

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from Peons, released December 12, 2012

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