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"Your Life, Your Hours" by Jonathan Lippe from the album Mind Over Matrix (2005)

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Channel: Jonathan Lippe · 2016 · Music

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I've heard of people quitting their jobs that they've hated and started a new life doing the things they wanted to do in life afterwards.  It helped them know they can decide for themselves and live the life they want to live.
I recorded this over a decade ago and the words apply.

Lyrics to YOUR LIFE, YOUR HOURS (2004)
(Chorus)
Your life, your hours
Your life, your hours
Your life, your hours
Your life, your hours of life (x 2)
(Verse 1)
Time is money
Your life is time
You spend most of your life making money for your time
How many times have you wished
You didn't have to work
How many times looked at your paycheck
And think you're being jerked
How much is your time worth?
I'll ask again
How much is an hour of your life worth?
So think again
And then the taxes taken out
Surcharges and fees
Social Security and other things
That you may never see
By the time its all done, you ain't got much
Ain't even got enough to enjoy yourself a decent lunch
Eight hours a day, forty a week
For forty years, your future looks bleak
No retirement plan, no pension offered
Car and health insurance, own a house you can't afford it.
But the bills keep coming
Your debt it grows
Tryna climb out
Make it up?
You'll never know.
The creditors keep calling, harassing on the phone
Checking your caller ID, leave me the hell alone
The interest, it compounds on an annual percentage rate
Wishing you never signed up, ah man it's too late.
Commitments and payments. Payments, commitments.
Bounced checks, overdrafts
Delayed processes and shipments
It makes you sick knowing you spent one third of your life working
One third doing your own thing, one third of your life sleeping
(Chorus)
(Verse 2)
You spend your life pretending
Being someone else
A corporate image, a thugged out killer
Bottom line you're not yourself
You're afraid to be who you want to be
It's because you're trying to fit in with society
You spend your life, your hours just trying to belong
Don't have opinions of your own
Not even what is right and what is wrong.
Trying to keep up with stupid things that people are doing
Drink this, smoke this, touch this, your life is ruined
Evil will always reign when you don't know who you are
Got you thinking it's all about your shoes
Clothes and your car
I know it's hard to be individual
Because you put yourself on the line
You've got to stand up for who you are
Everyday we fight the fight
And everyday we live our lives in quiet desperation
We hate pretending, we hate this lying and we hate our occupations
If things are wrong SAY they're wrong
Don't put up with ignorant decisions
Don't fall victim to the system
Stand up and fight is how I'm feeling
(Chorus)
(Verse 3)
It ain't gotta be like this
We've chose this path
Stuck our heads in the ground
Hoping that it will all pass
But you've got to face the darkness
Before you can see the light
We can't just turn around and go home
We gotta stay and we gotta fight
And we gotta do what's right
And stand up for our rights
This war is always going on
Everyday and every night
It's for your soul, your mind, your dignity, your faith
Your life, your hours, your children, your space
They got us fighting for our spirit and mind
Hating each other
Dividing and conquering
Killing each other
We all share this country, this continent, this planet
Why no one believes in world peace
I just can't understand it
We're too busy chasing dollars
Spending our life and hours
All for control of the system
Money respect and power
Avoid fear, spread love, because love is the pure power
And what's this all for?
Your life and your hours. 
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