Five days out of seven, eight hours of every one

I'm tryna buy a piece of heaven, but I'll be gone

Before that heaven comes, work, work, work

Who needs it? It's all I ever seem to do

I'm killin' myself for a living, livin' the working man's blues

Minute to minute, day after day

Wherever I go, it's always the same

I work a little longer and make up my pay

When the cheque comes along

They've taken half of it away, all the work, work, work

Who needs it? All I ever, ever seem to do

You know I'm killing myself for a living

Should be staying at home with you, woo

You know

City to city, all over the world

Wherever I been to, that's all I ever heard

You work a little longer to double up on that pay

When the tax man comes along that day

They've taken half of it away, work, work, work

Who needs it? (Who needs it?) It's all I ever seem to do

I'm killing, killing, killing time for a living

Living the working man's blues

Yeah, it's all work, work, work, work, that's all it is

Killing myself for a living, like diving a nail straight into my hand

I've been working my life away (working my life away)

That's right, working my life away (working my life away)

All this work, work, work

Working my life away

Working my life away

You know sometimes I get home in the evening (working my life away)

And lay in bed at night just dreaming (working my life away)

I've had enough (working my life away)

A whole pay cheque sitting in my hand (working my life away)

So we can split up between the two of us (working my life away)

Buy that big mansion on the hill (working my life away)

Where that rich guy lives in (working my life away)

Who says he pays me every week (working my life away)

Oh, oh, oh, oh, I don't want to work no more (working my life away)

I can't stand it (working my life away)

(Working my life away)