Richard Thompson - Stuck On The Treadmill lyrics

rate me

Well our money goes out, the bills come in

Round and round, we go again

I come close but I never win

I’m stuck on the treadmill

Another day, I’m punching steel

Til my arms too numb to feel

Like a hamster on a wheel

I’m stuck on a treadmill

Wish I knew a better way

To keep myself alive

Checking sheets of metal, everyday from 9 to 5

Others may be living

But me I just survive

Me I just survive,

Machines screaming in my ear

Wasn’t I just standin here

I went to sleep, I grabbed a beer

Now I’m stuck on a treadmill

Me and the robot, working away

He looks at me as if to say

I’ll be doing your job someday

Stuck on a treadmill

Wish I knew a better way

To keep myself alive

Checking sheets of metal, everyday from 9 to 5

Others may be living

But me I just survive

Me I just survive,

Our jobs are going by the score

They are laying off 100 more

20 years and they show you that door

I’m stuck on a treadmill

Strikes are coming, troubles brewin'

Whole town's going, to rack and ruin

Next year what I’ll be doing

Stuck on a treadmill

[Guitar solo]

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