You can't tell how thick your shell can get when you abide

By a lifestyle that ain't worthwhile

But you continue what you're doing

On the hot sheet at the right time you get eaten by the hungry hand

Good examples so you say is what you're making out of everyone



CHORUS:



Work all day you think all night ain't gonna sign my life away

And there ain't no one as dumb as you, the company man



Hammer and chisel insight on you I see if you're all there

But you're long gone just a shambles of what could have been real

And you tell me that it's my fault when I come short of pleasing you

At the same time I can tell you that you'll end up in a ball and chain



CHORUS



Look here no mind who laughs last laughs best

The company man takes from anyone's hand and he don't give a damn

The company man takes from anyone's hand just to get where he can

The company man he won't start seeing until he stops believing

The company man

That a nine to five is all you need to be alive

The company man you think you're alive but your brain has done died