That Job

Seventeen, working at the Silver Screen

Hair dye, sentimental horror queen

New release VHS, popcorn is free

You’ve got late fees on American Pie

You’ve got a new crush on the moody Tarantino guy

Just one request: please be kind and rewind

Nobody does that job anymore

Nobody does that job anymore

My dad was local news reporter

Doing interviews on a little tape recorder

We’d drive rolls of film all the way in to town

Pictures of people doing work

Farmers, politicians and the courthouse clerks

The news is just the things that people do in a day

Nobody does that job anymore

Nobody does that job anymore

Milk man, toll booth operator

File clerk, town crier and lamplighter

Transcriptionist, travel agent,

Door to door salesman

        

Elevator operator, knocker upper

Photo lab tech, printer and typesetter

A&R man, radio DJ and bank teller

Nobody does that job anymore

Nobody does that job anymore

Nobody does that job anymore