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Work
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Rock
Work was released on August 18, 2017 by Brooklyn Basement Records as a part of the album Work
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AlbumWork
Release DateAugust 18, 2017
LabelBrooklyn Basement Records
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM62

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Ron Pope
Ron Pope
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Ron Pope
Ron Pope
Songwriter

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Carhartt jacket on, five-thirty A.M.
Feeling like the ace of spades
15 years old, work till the sun comes
Then I'm off to school again
[Verse 2]
Working my back as a young man
Taught me I'd rather work my mind
So we'd cop a little smoke, and crack a couple jokes
Just trying to learn to survive
[Verse 3]
I wanted to work to live, no, not just live to work
I had a pain deep in my bones beneath my t-shirt
Was a young man singing an old man song
Paying with my last dimes
But working to live beats living to work anytime
[Verse 4]
I had a teacher, she told my mother
That she'd better find me a trade
Because boys like me, well, we all grow up
To be long term guests of the state
[Verse 5]
Now I worked hard because I had to
I never found much luck
Till' I built my world round' a Georgia girl
Who told me that I was enough
[Verse 6]
I wanted to work to live, no, not just live to work
I had a pain deep in my bones beneath my t-shirt
Was a young man singing an old man song
Paying with my last dimes
But working to live beats living to work anytime
[Verse 7]
Sometimes at night I wake with a shiver
Sweat soaking clean through my sheets
But then I remember I am who I am
Not who they said I would be
[Verse 8]
I wasn't born with nothing
'Cept a voice and common sense
Maybe that why I took off running
The first chance that I had
[Verse 9]
I wanted to work to live, no, not just live to work
I had a pain deep in my bones beneath my t-shirt
Was a young man singing an old man song
Paying with my last dimes
But working to live beats living to work anytime
Oh, working to live beats living to work anytime
Written by: Ron Pope
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