Pay The Bills

Check the mail, your rent's been waiting

the time has come to pay the bills

and these envelopes ironically

make it easy to send back the money scraped

Procrastinate, they'll send another

until Big Brother comes and kicks you in the ass

your time is running out

and your priorities need order once again

Your cell phone is dying, your card's interesting

your cable's growing rabbit ears

and the mess you've created for them and yourself

is pouring the sweat, and it's shedding the tears over you

Oh, where to start? not paid until Thursday

and even then, just fifty bucks

because your wage is minimum

along with your skills so you can't find better work

Oh, what to do? still owe that one guy

and these dimes I've found beneath the couch

aren't enough to buy the stamps

for the letters piling up, for the "thank you's" to my grandma

who's been sending me the checks

for the food and for the rent and all this shit

All of these things that we don't even need

all these brand names known useless

all of the times that we've made sacrifice for love

and disregard a meaning for life