Say hello to the new way
Story behind the song
Ah, work. The curse of the drinking classes and so on. For the unhappy majority of us this entails slaving away for 5 days of each week (that's 72% friends) making a load of money for someone else in the hope that you can glean off enough to fund your actual life, which you now have to somehow cram into the remaining 2 days.
And then at horrifying speed it's Monday again and you're back on the treadmill of despair for another seemingly endless week. "Cheer up", they say, "it'll soon be Tuesday" but of course it isn't. Time slows down until the cherished weekend disappears out of sight beyond a miserable horizon.
And this goes on month after month, year after year, decade after decade, grinding you into submission until you just get used to it.
Then when you finally get lucky enough to consider being able to quit, you find yourself almost enjoying it and worrying about giving it up. What's that about?
Let me tell you, from my perspective anyway, that anxiety is entirely misplaced. After stopping working my only regret was not having done it sooner.
As soon as you can afford to, do it.
Lyrics
How come a day and a half seems to take
More than an entire week?
Have cyber time-thieves tampered with all my clocks?
If this is any indication then
The prospects are looking bleak
Pop your thinking back inside the box
Best invest the time remaining
Crafting excuses
Explaining why you couldn't do the job
Rather than just get on and do it
Excitement reaching fever pitch
Fear or desperation, can't tell which
Will give me strength to get me through it
So better brace yourself because
However paroxysmic Monday was
Your thrill-buds will be redlining soon
Each hallelujah Tuesday afternoon
What's the deal with missing the thing
You claimed to hate the most?
Isn't this supposed to be paradise?
Yet I'm tapping at the window
Like some Bronte sisters ghost
In a kind of masochistic afterlife
Was it the camaraderie
Against a shared adversary
Even when they might be
Non-existent?
Condemned to freedom's life-row
Miserable even though
Now I can stare aout the damned window
Any time I want
What am I supposed to do?
Nothing to look forward to
Half-heartedly howling at the moon
This hallelujah Tuesday afternoon
Those devils of dependancy
Were just mayflies in the air
Gone before they'd even taken wing
It's not until you lose something
You find that you didn't care
There really is more to life than suffering
Gone the disillusionment
I found I had the whole thing back to front
Damn, why did I ever leave it this late?
Gave up 72% of each week
As a kind of pointless punishment
Endured to pay for the other 28
But every day's a weekend now
Even Monday takes a bow
See me dancing to a different tune
Each hallelujah Tuesday afternoon
So say hello to the new way
I ain't gonna do what you say
Hallelujah Tuesday afternoon