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PLAYING TOY SOLDIERS
( IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE )
Copyright © 2000 - MickTerry.com

& here I am,
PLAYING TOY SOLDIERS
with my marking pens.
& the stapler is a mobile cannon,
knocking down enemy men.
There's a sniper on the monitor.
& the keyboard is full of land mines.
There's a sneak attack on the far right flank
& an hour 'til it's quitting time.

& here I am,
PLAYING TOY SOLDIERS,
with my brain so fried.
& my manager has just informed me,
once again we've been down-sized.
& the work load I've been working on
is now multiplied five or six times.
Like I didn't have quite enough to grab.
(& I won't get paid for overtime.)

    IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE
    on the battlefield, on the battlefield of life.
    IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE
    on the battlefield & it comes to fight or flight.

& here I am,
PLAYING TOY SOLDIERS
when my boss walks in.
& he never even sees the ammo,
doesn't spy all of my men.
The In basket nears the ceiling fan
as he carelessly adds to the pile.
Is he unaware or just doesn't care
that he crushed a tank beneath those files?

    CHORUS

        Sometimes we need escaping
        to survive just another day.
        Sometimes we need escaping to be free.

& here I am,
PLAYING TOY SOLDIERS
with so much to do.
& it's not at all that I feel lazy:
just a case of feeling screwed.
There's a battle raging quietly
that is camouflaged inside my head.
If the enemy should discover me,
maybe one of us could end up dead.

    CHORUS

Copyright © 2000  MICK TERRY  Silent Tree Music  All rights reserved
[ Reprinted here by permission of the composer-lyricist ]   BMI
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Written when Mick Terry worked for Patrick Marketing Group
where everything was done entirely by statistics
& both employees & clients were highly expendable.

To other work song lyrics:   TOUGH JOB
IT'S JUST A JOB
A PIRATE'S LIFE
EXCUSES, EXCUSES
AMONG THE RANKS
NO PITY PARTY HERE
OUTSOURCING, OFFSHORING
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