VIDEO - BELTAINE'S FIRE "Quit My Job"

The last video from the Californian folk-rap band Beltaine's Fire.

Beltaine's Fire - Quit My Job

Song: Quit My Job

Album: Anarchitecture (http://beltainesfire.bandcamp.com/album/anarchitecture)

Band: Beltaine's Fire (http://www.beltainesfire.com and http://facebook.com/beltainesfire)

This one goes out to everyone who's ever had a job they hated and to all the shitty bosses who treat their employees like peons. Everyone has had a job like this at least once, the kind of job where no matter what you do, how hard you work, or how much you contribute your work goes completely unrecognized while the boss takes all the credit. And for the millions of working class folks who would be fired just for saying the word "Union" too loudly, sometimes the only option is to stand up, walk out that door, and keep walking until you find a better way to make a living.

Special thanks to Kerie, Annie, Al, Camile, and Cory for appearing in the video and to Charles and Stacy for shooting and producing it.

Lyrics:

i'm gonna quit my job, i'm gonna walk right out

and when the boss ask why i'm gonna let it all out

so there ain't no doubt i'm bout to put him in check

gonna quit my job, after the next paycheck

i spend my life at a desk tryna earn these checks

cash is king and it demands respect

need money to live, money to eat

money for a house or get out on the streetI repeat this mantra, memorize it

cant defeat this trap tho i despise it

a rat in a maze, chasin cheez

searchin for scraps, beggin please

i could do everything my boss does better

but he cant do half the things that i do

but he's in charge so he gets paid better

and i just scrape by and try to make do

forget that, i'm sick of this, i'm puttin in notice

they dont notice when i'm here

but when i'm gone? You bet they'll notice!

gon work on my art, blossom like a lotus

cuz i can do anything if i just focus

now, e'erybody's talking bout this recession

and unemployment's at an all-time high

and i know that I'll never find a job in my field

forget it, i'm done, not even gonna try

but I ain't gonna cry, that's just a waste o' time

instead I'm gon' wrap it all up in a rhyme

spit through the mic, call it thought-crime

make the music a movement so I can feel fine

I ain't lookin to a job to keep me fulfilled,

I am much more then a title and a check

so when people ask me "what do you do?"

I won't answer with a job the way they expect

I do the things that feel natural

so let me give an answer that's more factual:

I do what I gotta to keep my head up

and ---- the boss, cuz I'm totally fed up

my job sucks and I hate it

if you're job sucks, I bet you hate it too!

So if you're job sucks and you hate it

you got to tell me

come on and tell me

just tell me

what you're gonna do!

Gonna quit my job (walk right right out)

quit my job (and walk right out)

gonna quit my job! (walk right out)

quit my job and walk right out!