Graham Parker - Beancounter lyrics

Ci vil is ation Has come a long way Out of the mud where chitinous bugs Eat each other all day Now we're in the clouds working overtime for our pay Countin' the numbers and being the bugs that eat each other today Sitting in an office in a publishing house Or in a big company working a computer clicking a mouse Pulling up your file checking your sales Meeting those quotas and accommodating voters that's the holy grail Chorus Cos it's a bean counter and if that don't fill you with terr or Bean counter. takin' the human out of the human err or In a gla** tower uptown or downtown She's workin' every hour runnin' through your contract writing your deficit down She's downsizing everything including her brain Snackin' on potato chips smackin' her lips lickin' her pencil again Chorus repeat From wall street to hong kong. chinee to chancery lane You're being rubber stamped your style is being cramped. it all comes out the same They're not being paid to think. that's not the idea And they never run out of red ink, get that particularly clear Chorus repeat Snackin' on potato chips givin' you a scan Deleting your account phasing you out in the trash can Now if you don't meet projections. if there ain't enough zeroes involved You'll get stamped rejections and then that problem is solved /pre>