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Don't Give Up Your Day Job

from Pullin' a Sickie by Ric Birtill

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LYRICS:

You will try your best to succeed
Sweat and slave try to embrace all the defeat
People can be cruel cynical and rude
They will try to stop you
It's hard enough to try and crawl
Out from underneath it all
Just when you think that you are there
Someone is waiting with a snare
And they will love to tell you

Don’t give up your day job
Stick to waiting tables
You will never amount to anything more
Now go and do as you are told

When I hear that cretinous drool
It throws me into a whirl pool
I am spinning in despair
I have forgotten why I’m here
And what I am dong
It can stifle restrict and distract
And in some cases permanently block
The getting and get up
The doing and the try
Yes they love to tell you

Don’t give up your day job
Keep cleaning that toilet
They think it's funny
But it's not funny at all
Don’t give up your day job
Stick to waiting tables
You will never amount to anything more
Now go and do as you are told

Don’t give up your day job
Keep cleaning that toilet
They think it's funny
But it's not funny at all
I've seen you on stage
Singing your songs
It's nothing new and it's all been done before
So don’t give up your day job

このような批判を受け入れて
それを自分の本業とは
別の才能を伸ばすための
努力や意欲に活かしていけば
その批判はただの批判ではなく
自己実現に繋がりるよ！

他の人が理解したり
得ていないことを広い心で受け入れ
理解していくことが出来れば
それはあなたを成功へと導く一部となり
新しいライフ待っているよ！

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from Pullin' a Sickie, released May 12, 2020
CREDITS:

All songs written, performed and recorded by Ric Birtill
*Japanese spoken word on Don’t Give Up Your Day Job by Dean Hinchey
Produced and mixed by Ric Birtill
Mastered by Gareth Woodfield
Recorded at SIC studios
Released through SIC turtle Records
Artwork by Robin Hill

© Sic Turtle Music 2020 copyright control; unauthorised copying, broadcasting, hiring, renting or public performance prohibited.

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