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Some Blue Island Beer Club Songs:
Alita's LullabyAnd the Women
Birthright to the Blues
Blues In My Pocket
Dolphins Play
Eye Contact
Lone Palm Tree
No Redeeming Features
One More Day
Spent
Stocking Island
Til the Lion Come
Wishing Well Blues
Wonder Why
You Make It Easy
Spent
Words and Music by Bruce Kula
You work at your stationlearning your trade
You make each thing better
than the last one you made
Come a man with a razor
for an adding machine
His sharp calculations
shave the roster clean
You report for work,
the picture of ambition and intent
They don't even look you up and down
before they declare you spent
A small replacement part
Obsolescent from the start
Spent
Give them thirty-odd years
of eight by five
They look up, surprised
to see you're still there, alive
Come a man with a gallows
for a business plan
His every solution
drops another good man
It's not only just the rate of pay
(you're earning every cent)
It's those job dates on your résumé
that make them declare you're spent
A small replacement part
Obsolescent from the start
Spent
Have the grace to know when you're through
the company exists
for the good and success
of no one like you
Hear the entire song