March 13, 2008

9 to 5ers

At one point in my life, I almost tattooed this whole excerpt from Aesop Rock’s “9 to 5ers Anthem” on myself:

Now we the American working population
Hate the fact that eight hours a day
Is wasted on chasing the dream of someone that isn’t us
And we may not hate our jobs
But we hate jobs in general
That don’t have to do with fighting our own causes.
We the American working population
Hate the nine-to-five day-in day-out
When we’d rather be supporting ourselves
By being paid to perfect the pasttimes
That we have harbored based solely on the fact
That it makes us smile if it sounds dope…

Now that I look back, that would have been a big tattoo.