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#72, "Working The System," is from my August 2018 song-a-day catchup project. I think it's about my feelings about working in the entertainment industry. It sounds like Cake.

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I'm like a soldier
I'm Ray Bolger,
I drink my Folger's
before I'm going on with Judy Garland, I'm a
Scarecrow!
check out my hair, yo!
don't touch my hair, though
I got it done like Seth MacFarlane
I'm a family guy,
and I'm a manly guy,
and I been standing by
while all my peers are getting famous
so I'm here to say
I'm back into the fray
you best get out my way
you will remember what my name is...

'cause I'm working the system
I'm playing the games
I'm doing the lunches
I'm dropping the names (Teddy Pendergrass!)
I'm working the system
I'm all systems go
I got a manly mani-pedi with my neighbor Helen Reddy
'cause it's all about how you look and who you know.

Hey, pal
whatcha say, pal?
How 'bout you paypal
me all that money that you owe me
Venmo?
come again, joe?
I need the cash flow,
so gimme cash or you can blow me
Sit tight,
I got the invite,
I'll sip a bud lite,
hittin' on a hottie at the party
jumping out of the gate,
got my priorities straight,
I'm living out of my car, but my car's a maserati

'cause I'm working the system
I'm playing the games
I'm doing the lunches
I'm dropping the names (Englebert Humperdinck!)
I'm working the system
I'm all systems go
botox and lip filler with my buddy Phyllis Diller
'cause it's all about how you look and who you know.

credits

from 24 Hours A Day Until Further Notice (262 songs, vol. 6), released April 24, 2019
all singing and instrumenting and producering by Brendan Milburn. Recorded at my kitchen table in Seattle with a shure MV51 usb mic and a bunch of apple loops.

This song is (c) 2018 by Brendan Milburn, my hat music (ASCAP)
administered by WB Music Corp

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Brendan Milburn Seattle, Washington

Brendan Milburn is a music teacher and a dad. In his former life he wrote musicals, songs for animated movies, shows for theme parks and cruise lines. He used to play in a band called GrooveLily. Now he has chickens, cats, and kids, and he is making a song a week. ... more

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