Take Home Pay

Take Home Pay

 Been hanging rock for 20 odd years now 

 6 days a week and I can't keep up

 My shoulder burns like a grinding gear box 

 These young crews are too fast and tough

 I'm on my way down to the pawnshop 

 A couple hundred is all I need

 If I have to I’ll hit the blood bank 

 I’m bone dry but I can always bleed

 Schemers scheme around the edges dreamers dream of better days

 But everyone knows what the catch is it's all about the take home pay

 I got some Oxy, to keep me moving 

 It slowly takes some things away

 The only thing I was scared of losing 

 She’s already long gone away

 I guess she got tired of waiting 

 For the man she thought I’d be

 In the end you can’t really blame her 

 We’re all scratching for the do-re-me

 Schemers scheme around the edges dreamers dream of better days

 But everyone knows what the catch is it's all about the take home pay

 There’s a guy I know from high school 

 Could set me up at the Super 8

 Sell speed to the red-eyed truckers 

 Coming in off the interstate

 Or take a job down at the Home Depot 

 It's half the pay but I’d still get by

 There's a new girl working the scanner 

 I think I caught her giving me the eye

 Schemers scheme around the edges dreamers dream of better days

 But everyone knows what the catch is it's all about the take home pay

 Schemers scheme around the edges dreamers dream of better days

 But everyone knows what the catch is it's all about the take home pay