The Vogues
Up every mornin' just to keep a job
I gotta fight my way through the hustlin' mob
Sounds of the city poundin' in my brain
While another day goes down the drain
But it's a five o'clock world when the whistle blows
No one owns a piece of my time
And there's a five o'clock me inside my clothes
Thinkin' that the world looks fine, yeah
Holiday, yeah...
Tradin' my time for the pay I get
Livin' on money that I ain't made yet
Gotta keep goin', gotta make my way
While I live for the end of the day
'Cause it's a five o'clock world when the whistle blows
No one owns a piece of my time
And there's a long-haired girl who waits, I know
To ease my troubled mind, yeah
Holiday, yeah...
In the shelter of her arms everything's okay
She talks and the world goes slippin' away
And I know the reason I can still go on
When every other reason is gone
In my five o'clock world she waits for me
Nothin' else matters at all
'Cause everytime my baby smiles at me
I know that it's all worthwhile, yeah
Holiday, yeah...
I gotta fight my way through the hustlin' mob
Sounds of the city poundin' in my brain
While another day goes down the drain
But it's a five o'clock world when the whistle blows
No one owns a piece of my time
And there's a five o'clock me inside my clothes
Thinkin' that the world looks fine, yeah
Holiday, yeah...
Tradin' my time for the pay I get
Livin' on money that I ain't made yet
Gotta keep goin', gotta make my way
While I live for the end of the day
'Cause it's a five o'clock world when the whistle blows
No one owns a piece of my time
And there's a long-haired girl who waits, I know
To ease my troubled mind, yeah
Holiday, yeah...
In the shelter of her arms everything's okay
She talks and the world goes slippin' away
And I know the reason I can still go on
When every other reason is gone
In my five o'clock world she waits for me
Nothin' else matters at all
'Cause everytime my baby smiles at me
I know that it's all worthwhile, yeah
Holiday, yeah...
Sweetie's not long-haired, but other than that... yeah.
5 comments:
Behind every great man there is a woman!
he's too sweet! that's why i love him! he had me from "hello!" *smooch* baby
Hey Susie - they love each other - get over it - LOL.
That is a great song, Mr. Mike. Definitely a pick me up after a long work day.
And hello to you too, miss turtle!
As a victim of chronic lyricosis, I'm just tickled to know that the falsetto section actually is saying "holiday" instead of "adelayheehee" or whatever I would bleat.
I know what you mean. I didn't get 'holiday' out of it, and neither did the folks who put together the lyric prompts when I performed it at karaoke night. There, it was "Odelay-eee-eee-eeeeeeee-ayyy" or suchlike.
Along the same lines, that whole "cold September eyes" bit in Sunny Day Real Estate's "Snibe" (since you'll know what I'm talking about) got right by me.
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