Stuff My Paycheck

Clock in, head down

Coffee gone cold

Boss man got a grin

And a hand in my gold

Took my days, took my nights

Took the shine off my name

I was bendin' like a fence post

In his little game

Then one day it hit me

Like a hammer on bone

He was feedin' on my hours

And I was keepin' him warm

Stuff my pay check up your ass

I ain't workin’ no more for your brass

You can keep your shiny lies

And your eat-the-poor disguise

Stuff my pay check up your ass

I'm gone, gone fast (gone, gone fast)

I walked out the front door

And I ain't never lookin' back

I seen it in the crew cut

In the break room stare

In the busted knees and back pain

In the cheap excuse he wears

We were buildin' up his little kingdom

Board by board, day by day

While the ones who made it all run

Got chewed and tossed away

Then it spread like wildfire

Down the county line

Every tired set of shoulders

Started readin' the signs

Stuff my pay check up your ass

I ain't workin’ no more for your brass

You can keep your shiny lies

And your eat-the-poor disguise

Stuff my pay check up your ass

I'm gone, gone fast (gone, gone fast)

I walked out the front door

And I ain't never lookin' back

Now the country's full of men like him

With clean boots and dirty hands

Takin' what the hard folks make

Then callin' it a plan

But there's fire in a paycheck

When the truth cuts through the dust

You can't own a man forever

When a man wakes up and bucks

Stuff my pay check up your ass

I ain't workin’ no more for your brass

You can keep your shiny lies

And your eat-the-poor disguise

Stuff my pay check up your ass

I'm gone, gone fast (gone, gone fast)

I walked out the front door

And I ain't never lookin' back

Yeah, I saw the whole machine

And I let it break

One less soul in the grinder

One more road to take