White Collar Blues

Plainfield Fest rages down the street.  Used to be such an anticipated weekend.  Now, it's as they say, meh.  I'm more interested in talking to the Carnies and learning who they are and where they came from, where they are going.  I'd like to buy you a drink sir/madam.

I have a great job, I do, but ideally I would be a full-time musician/songwriter, that's the most I have to offer to the world. So sometimes ya get to feeling bummed out at and/or about work, that's the way these things go. The other day I got to feeling thata way (my eyes were on fire!) and happened to be listening to Chicago Farmer's "Assembly Line Blues." If you've never listened to Chicago Farmer, please do. As Clifton Roy says, he's the "Woody Guthrie of Illinois." Needless to say, I wrote "White Collar Blues," my version of Chicago Farmer's song.

*Chicago Farmer is playing with me at Finnegan's in Plainfield on Friday, July 31st. Both "Assembly Line" and "White Collar" will be played that night!*

www.chicagofarmer.com


White Collar Blues

Staring at a spreadsheet
Need a band-aide for my eyes
The walls the saddest shade of grey
I've seen in some time
No widows and my cube
Feels like a padded room
Lose another day
To white collar blues

Scrounging for some change
For to get my morning fix
Meet me in the break room
Don't invite no management
I should be at home
Writing something brand new
Not staring at the clock
With white collar blues

Meetings in the morning
Meetings in the afternoon
Meetings to discuss
What the hell we gonna do
Sales are down all over town
Morale is too
I'm doing all I can
But white collar blues

Now I'm dreaming of being
A country music star
When the boss man calls
And asks me for some kind of chart 
Downsize my mind
At least the parts that I don't use
Sure don't need the right side
With white collar blues

The clock is crawling slowly
Towards five o'clock p.m.
A collared shirt and pants
Surely isn't who I am
I'll go home and sing tonight
At the local saloon
Wake up in the morning
With white collar blues