Never Work

You look so unemployed tonight

I brought the matches and the flashlight

We can wander past the public pool

And stop behind the old abandoned school

Where we first dated

The letters are faded with age,

But it's still painted there in teenage haste:

Never work

Never suffer

Never tip your hat to another

Never be a ma'am or a sir

Never work

Lying on our backs on the old tennis court

I was never into racket sports

But remember hiding from the teachers?

Our own society underneath the bleachers

We were dreamers

The smell of saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal

We had the spark we wanted more sparkle

Never work

Never suffer

Never beat the team to the buzzer

Never button your shirt

Never work

The stars are out: there's Orion, there's Ursa Major

Walking hand in hand like we're still teenagers

Hard to imagine this used to be a bank

I siphoned six or seven litres from the tank

Your folks won't mind

They barely drive, cause they're retired

And everybody loves a good bonfire

Never work

Never suffer

Never let the going get tougher

Never be too clean for the dirt

Never work