you're made to live like running clockwork
they make you run like living clockwork
there's never time to think about the future
8 hours a day to earn a living
8 hours a day to sleep it off
8 hours a day to lose it (so democratic)
you have to pay for time for thinking
they make you pay for time for lying
you're made to pay for time for dying
they extend the years they spend
investing time (they fear the end)
and when you're given any time off
you're only filling in the hours
between the earning and the spending
it's done to teach us time is money
they want us to think that time is money
(a clockface measures out the cost of living)
it takes a minute to believe them
it takes an hour to see they're wrong, but
it takes a life to tell them never
you have to pay for time for breathing
they make you pay for time for feeding
you're made to pay for time for stealing
they never give you time
they pay the daily breadline
you pay them back in time
so you always fall behind them
they've taken time to run in circles
they've taken life to run in circles
for you and me to run in circles, no
future life (a carnal time)
it's down to beat the clock out
messing with the hands
knock knock them out of joint
a fight for change of time
the right to shape your life
the right to make our life, but
they never give you time
taking the trouble
coming together
forcing the issue
we've got to stricke
to kick the clock out
you've got to change time
dick witts 