Decomposure - A Test Lyrics
I arrived at work some friday morning, early ohsixplaided out and sleepmouthed, dragging dawn for my coffee fixchecked my email, waiting boldedsomeone@jwt.com wanted to give me ten thousand dollarsso macy’s could use my songI confirmed indeed it was for realeveryone i told kept telling me this could be a big dealBut i was not convinced, i did not believeboosting bright buy culture and selling sweatshop sweatersseemed antithetical to my precious integritythough intangibles aren’t accepted by collection agencies...Conflicted, i wrote back: i needed time,i asked for the weekend to talk to my wife and make a decisionthey said that’s fine, but summer’s coming,soon we’ll need the contract signedi researched, i waffled, i justifiedthe money - so soothing - made it all rightlike a tetherball, i was drawn to the green lighti’d be crazy not to, fame is waitingjust likemoby wrote those essays but had no such qualmswhen ad firms signed the cheques not everything was wrongk’naan cut the poor to wave the flag for cokenike made sure saul won’t live hand to mouth no morem.i.a. led a coup for honda’s coupe sifeist counted as apple’s chinese workers diedit’s worthless without a price,whatever you have inside, you’regoing to have to monetize itA man without a codeis a flimsy tent that foldswhen a strong wind starts to blowmonday i awokeand i said yes* * *I never heard from them again.and so my big break came and went,untangling the knot inside my chestthough i’d still feel awful whenever people asked.sometimes i think the whole thing wasa test devised in shadows by some dark controlling classto expose how small a sum it took to make me danceand pass around the transcripts at their gatherings and laughabout how easily i sold my soul to hold a cheque i could not cashSo i slunk back to my high horse, still in debtmy songs circled like birds and taunted mei’d like to think i learned something from thatwhen i saw myself undressed, and didn’t know the person underneath* * *I was working overtimewhen the call came down the linethey said that my home was on fire
