"Temporary" lyrics
(feat. Junwav)
Thirty applications used to shake one loose
Now it's a hundred and the inbox stays quiet
I got better at the work in those two years
Got older at the same time. Only one of those counts.
Every line on my resume is twelve months long
Because that's what they offered, that's what I signed
I finished every one of them. Every single one.
Clean, on time, never walked out early
Thirty got me one, a hundred gets me none
Two years better, three times harder, that's the sum
Finished every contract, never quit a single one
Now they read me as temporary that's the joke, that's the run
Somebody in HR sees a pattern I never chose
Reads a stack of one-year jobs and calls it a warning
I look like a man who leaves
I've never once left. They ended it.
I can't erase two years of doing what was offered
Can't rewrite the only work that was available
The gaps aren't mine, the endings weren't mine
But the resume's mine and that's what they hold
Thirty got me one, a hundred gets me none
Two years better, three times harder, that's the sum
Finished every contract, never quit a single one
Now they read me as temporary that's the joke, that's the run
All I ever wanted was a chair with my name taped to it
Not a title, not a raise, just a desk that stays a desk
Somewhere they'd bother to learn how I take my coffee
That's it. That's the whole ambition. That's all.
Thirty got me one, a hundred gets me none
Better than I was, and worth less than I was, that's the sum
I did it right, I did it right, I did it right, each one
And the doing-it-right is exactly what they run from
Now it's a hundred and the inbox stays quiet
I got better at the work in those two years
Got older at the same time. Only one of those counts.
Every line on my resume is twelve months long
Because that's what they offered, that's what I signed
I finished every one of them. Every single one.
Clean, on time, never walked out early
Thirty got me one, a hundred gets me none
Two years better, three times harder, that's the sum
Finished every contract, never quit a single one
Now they read me as temporary that's the joke, that's the run
Somebody in HR sees a pattern I never chose
Reads a stack of one-year jobs and calls it a warning
I look like a man who leaves
I've never once left. They ended it.
I can't erase two years of doing what was offered
Can't rewrite the only work that was available
The gaps aren't mine, the endings weren't mine
But the resume's mine and that's what they hold
Thirty got me one, a hundred gets me none
Two years better, three times harder, that's the sum
Finished every contract, never quit a single one
Now they read me as temporary that's the joke, that's the run
All I ever wanted was a chair with my name taped to it
Not a title, not a raise, just a desk that stays a desk
Somewhere they'd bother to learn how I take my coffee
That's it. That's the whole ambition. That's all.
Thirty got me one, a hundred gets me none
Better than I was, and worth less than I was, that's the sum
I did it right, I did it right, I did it right, each one
And the doing-it-right is exactly what they run from
