You And Your Career

You know those feelings I'm talking about

You're walking down the road

A car indicates right and then turns left

You didn't get the code

It's a world of signs we're living in

A mirror and that's a fact

If you don't reflect what they provide

They're likely to react

Was another wind-swept Wednesday

In the schoolyard of the heart

Your knuckles got wrapped for this before

You had to learn your part

I'm at your window looking in

Seems my valentine has died

We came out in 1983

Now you've gone back inside

You've gone back inside

A snapshot of a wicked world

It's flowing down the sink

But there is no point in watching it go

No time to sit and think

The world's revolving faster

But the train's still going slow

So much cackle, no more laughter

Don't trust anyone you don't know

Your mother's irresponsible

Your father's on the booze

It just happened to turn out that way

They could not really choose

Now you've got big alternatives

But it's only one or naught

Don't try to look between those places

If you do then don't get caught

Don't get caught cos that could ruin your career

You're looking for a part-time job

You're picking up the perks

And all you do is lick the floor

And jerk off all the jerks

I don't know if you've noticed

I'm tired of being understood

But at least these words rhyme with the world

In a sense you knew they would

Sometimes I am a politician

Other times I'm just a king

But I always do the things I want

Like let my payphone ring

Of course I have no money

Naturally, I have no friends

Of course I have no power

But the license to pretend that I've got a career

I can pretend that I've got a career

You reached the door they told you to

They just said ëWell what took you so long?'

Well maybe in that corridor

All the exits were marked wrong

You took the route they told you to

You walked down straight white lines

You kept on looking straight ahead

I'm sure it'll work out fine

Now you've got what you want and you've got your career