LJ Idol Season 11: Week 15 - Busman's Holiday
video of the song: https://photos.app.goo.gl/UzTacxmTDfFCqSko7
A Cog Monologue
By my makers I was told
No, you didn’t break the mold
You know it’s best to fit in
Our world works as designed
Your purpose won’t stay hidden
You’ll find your place in time
If the mold I didn’t break
Then there’s a rightful place to take
I know that I can fit in
And I’ll work as designed
My purpose isn’t within
There’s a place and a time
And now it’s
time to work!
Get to work!
Work to live,
live to work!
Things are simple as can be
Beautiful efficiency
I see how I can fit in
This world as it’s designed
A purpose I’ve been given
I’ll serve and do my time
I’m a cog analog
I prosper within the machine
I’m a cog agog
I’ll prove and I’ll polish my sheen
I’m a cog analog
I’m crucial to a higher plan
I’m a cog agog
My labor is love to command
But now it’s
Personal time off
Income tax write off
Mandated vacay
Man, hate to vacate
Guess I’ll relax…
...this isn’t working.
Would rather be working
Can’t work out
How this works out
I don’t work
If I don’t work.
Maybe they miss me at work.
Maybe they’ll call me in.
...
A cog only knows how to spin
So now my cogs are turning
I thought that I was the linchpin
But I see the machine keeps churning
Without me
Without thought
About me
I’m nothing
I’m a cog analog
Irate, I rage against the machine
I’m a cog demagogue
I plan to supplant the regime
I’m a cog analog
Why make me if I’m inessential
I’m a cog demagogue
Destroy what destroyed my potential
All work and no play
makes Jack a null boy