This song is, I guess, social commentary, without any answers.
Think of me as like Billy Bragg, but without the love of communism and tyranny.
The lyrics are not from as much of a judgemental place as it might seem.
The situation is very sad. The system we are under has most of us by the balls.
Most jobs and businesses are very much touched by the tentacles of tyranny (there is a song there!). As the tentacles have grown and gotten into everything, most of us have been blind to it and ignored it until, all of a sudden (it seems), things are really extreme.
Now, most jobs, professions and industries are so heavily infected with wokeness and ecofascism (etc. etc.), those of us who have to make a living face very hard choices.
It is getting to the point of "comply or starve" and, of course, it is meant to be that way.
The only solution I can imagine is one where a critical mass of people truly wise up to the direction of things and to the inherent nature of government, and establish independence from it. Crazy stuff, most people would say. I think the idea of getting good / nice politicians in is more crazy and unlikely.
Most people comply with things they don't really agree with to some degree. Most of us who like to think that we have some integrity "choose our battles". We don't confront everything at every opportunity. Most of us.
It's on a spectrum. Many people sadly have ZERO integrity and ZERO balls, and some outstanding people have loads of integrity and huge balls. I know very few people, but I'm lucky that I know some people like that.
If you refused the jabs / you refused masks (or if you would and will from now on) hats off to you. We can't all be perfect but we need to try to hold some lines and not just say in our short term comfort zones.
To be clear here, I am talking to myself too.
lyrics
Well I’d like to be a doctor, and help people to stay well
Using knowledge, care and wisdom, following evidence as well
With the purest patient focus, no products I’m obliged to sell
but I know it couldn’t work like that, know it would not go well
Struggling vainly to supress them, I’d be consumed by guilty qualms
but I'd reassure my victims daily, so they’d stay confident and calm
I'd close my eyes to all those outcomes, keep giving death shots in the arm
shitting daily on my promise to first and always do no harm
**Chorus**
Cos it’s hard to make a living while staying honest and true
Only doing things that voice inside won’t cry when you do
**Verse 2**
Well I’d like to be a teacher, should be a noble thing to be
And many kids don’t have real parents only tablets and TVs / devices and screens
and those children they're future if there’s one we’re gonna see
But I’d find it hard to play my part in school insanity - I'd make kids
fear fresh air and faces, incite their insecurities
Tell them boy or girl or thing, come on choose a different thing to be
I'd Teach them government’s their real friend and it's gonna give them all they need
In those young and fertile minds, I would plant those evil seeds
yeah
**Chorus 2**
cos it’s hard to make a living when hungry mouths rely on you
Sticking solely to the things you know you only should stick to
It’s so hard to make a living and not swallow satan’s stew
Cos he feeds you in that cage - while he plays sick games with you
**Verse 3 **
Well I’d like to be a policeman helping my community
serving ordinary people, protect their bodies and property
Even handed with common sense, firm at those times it’s right to be
But fear I couldn't handle who a copper needs to be
a woke PR performing monkey, I'd get down for pictures on my knee
While those requesting rights for humans receive the violent side of me
I'd harass and bully those who dream there’s still free speech in this country
assist with government oppression of any new extreme degree
**Chorus 3**
It’s so hard to make a living while staying true to you
When so few listen to their conscience to be one of those very few
It’s so hard to make a living and not guzzle satan’s goo
When it seems the only means of survival he offers you
Yeah it’s hard to make a living while staying true to you
When no one's standing up to evil it feels so hard for you to
it’s hard to make a living while staying true to you.
Well it’s hard to make a living…
**Counter part**
I’d like to be a pharmacist
I’d like to be a nurse
or a bought and paid for scientist
Which one’s not quite the worst?
For those with decency in these times there's no supply of nice careers
If they stand for something right they might get thrown out on their ears
Since 2020 I've been writing songs (mainly rock music) about the "pandemic", The Great Reset, the WEF, 4IR, Lockdowns,
Informed Consent, Mass Compliance, the Depopulation Agenda, and other bullshit.
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