Never Work

Never Work You look so unemployed tonight I brought the matches and the flashlight We can wander past the public pool And stop behind the old abandoned school Where we first dated The letters are faded with age, But it's still painted there in teenage haste: Never work Never suffer Never tip your hat to another Never be a ma'am or a sir Never work Lying on our backs on the old tennis court I was never into racket sports But remember hiding from the teachers? Our own society underneath the bleachers We were dreamers The smell of saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal We had the spark we wanted more sparkle Never work Never suffer Never beat the team to the buzzer Never button your shirt Never work The stars are out: there's Orion, there's Ursa Major Walking hand in hand like we're still teenagers Hard to imagine this used to be a bank I siphoned six or seven litres from the tank Your folks won't mind They barely drive, cause they're retired And everybody loves a good bonfire Never work Never suffer Never let the going get tougher Never be too clean for the dirt Never work --- Never Work - Ariel Sharratt and Mathias Kom