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OUTSOURCING, OFFSHORING
Copyright © 2006 - mickterry.com

1: There's a certain singsong-y rhythm
that I love about your voice.
After all, I've seen Short Circuit five or six times.
But the info I've been given
keeps on falling in a void,
and it doesn't connect through your dialect
and it's lost across the line.

CHORUS:
Outsourcing, offshoring half way 'round the globe.
Why should it bother me? It'll lessen our labor load.
Outsourcing, offshoring. Our companies buy it cheap.
If it saves a dime on the bottom line,
how could it impact me?

2: And it's not just a one-way stumble.
You have had your problems, too.
I keep spelling out my address over again.
When I tell you about my trouble,
you get even more confused.
& it's seeming to me that it just might be
I know less than I knew then.
CHORUS:

BRIDGE:
I don't speak Indian. It's hard to understand
the techno-babble you're giving me.
I can't quite comprehend.
Your accent's pretty heavy. My brain is pretty thick.
I don't speak Indian and you speak pretty quick.

3: And it's not that you've got the knowledge.
You keep putting me on hold
as you search your books and manuals without a clue.
As I'm waiting for your wrong answer,
my boss' memo hits me cold:
through an internal rout, in two weeks I'm out,
& my job is going to you.
CHORUS:

Copyright © 2006  MICK TERRY  Silent Tree Music  All rights reserved
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- -06:
This song written after layoffs of advertising art & then IT departments
at Los Angeles Times in drastic cost-cutting moves by outsourcing to India.

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