You And Your Career Lyrics - John Wesley Harding

You know those feelings I'm talking about 

You're walking down the road 

A car indicates right and then turns left 

You didn't get the code 

It's a world of signs we're living in 

A mirror and that's a fact 

If you don't reflect what they provide 

They're likely to react 

Was another wind-swept Wednesday 

In the schoolyard of the heart 

Your knuckles got wrapped for this before 

You had to learn your part 

I'm at your window looking in 

Seems my valentine has died 

We came out in 1983 

Now you've gone back inside 

You've gone back inside 

A snapshot of a wicked world 

It's flowing down the sink 

But there is no point in watching it go 

No time to sit and think 

The world's revolving faster 

But the train's still going slow 

So much cackle, no more laughter 

Don't trust anyone you don't know 

Your mother's irresponsible 

Your father's on the booze 

It just happened to turn out that way 

They could not really choose 

Now you've got big alternatives 

But it's only one or naught 

Don't try to look between those places 

If you do then don't get caught 

Don't get caught 'cause that could ruin your career 

You're looking for a part-time job 

You're picking up the perks 

And all you do is lick the floor 

And jerk off all the jerks 

I don't know if you've noticed 

I'm tired of being understood 

But at least these words rhyme with the world 

In a sense you knew they would 

Sometimes I am a politician 

Other times I'm just a king 

But I always do the things I want 

Like let my pay phone ring 

Of course I have no money 

Naturally, I have no friends 

Of course I have no power 

But the license to pretend that I've got a career 

I can pretend that I've got a career 

You reached the door they told you to 

They just said "Well, what took you so long?' 

Well, maybe in that corridor 

All the exits were marked wrong 

You took the route they told you to 

You walked down straight white lines 

You kept on looking straight ahead 

I'm sure it'll work out fine 

Now you've got what you want and you've got your career