Seize the Day - Only Doing my Job lyrics

< If you get paid to be a driver then you drive You're only following your orders Not taking any sides You get your trailer to the compound And you keep your load alive If you get paid to be a driver then you drive Nobodys perfect, we all do the best we can And I make no claim to be a hero or an educated man But there are complicated factors that you don't understand Like i can barely meet the mortgage with the money in my hand Nobodys perfect but I do the best I can Which means if they say k**; I'll k** And if they say rob; I'll rob And if you ask why then I'll reply, I am only doing my job So I climb up into the cabin and I drive I'm not embara**ed to be working, I'm glad to be alive, No it's not where my spirit's living but it is how I survive Me and all the men I work with We've got families and wives We've got no time We're no inclined To think of all those other lives That are gonna suffer when this load arrives Because if they say k**; I'll k** And if they say rob; I'll rob And if you ask why then I'll reply, I am only doing my job Wish I had time to stand and criticise like you On a wednesday morning in the winter I'd have better things to do Than hurling insults at a driver, Maybe you should look at you You think you're such a f**ing hero Well you're wearing leather shoes And it's my taxes pay your giros that allow you to abuse People like me just so that you can see your faces on the news Wish I did not feel so defensive but I do... Because if they say k**; I'll k** And if they say rob; I'll rob And if you ask why then I'll reply, I am only doing my job No I don't deny your right to hold a point of view And I'll be the first one to agree that there are changes overdue But don't you see, it isn't me, that you should do your talking to Somebody somewhere has the power, but nobody knows who Even investors and inventors only got a job to do Like adexecs and their excuses for the effluent they spew And reporters who report it though they know it isnt true And the policemen who support it when they wave the convoy though And the ones who lay the tarmac and the captain and the crew And the girl who faxes the order and the ones who join the queue To spend their wages on the cages they have grown addicted to And all the millions who milk it like they never had a clue That therewere tortererers and traitors living lives who never knew Their mothers tenderness and all the joys of life that life is due It's kinda scary when you think the whole thing through, Somebody somewhere ought to hold a full review Tell them if they say k**; I'll k** And if they say rob; I'll rob And if you ask why then I'll reply, Hey I'm only doing my job So I'm just heading for the compound with my load I saw the policemen and the people and the peoples faces showed That they did not intend to let me throgh to get my cargo stowed That was when this woman ran out in the road Thats when the whole world turned on me Thats when they upped the price of veal And when they asked me why then I replied I'm just a driver this was someone else's deal. I'm gonna lose these yellow coveralls I wear I'll take a shower let the water wash the whole thing from my hair, Tell the kids it was an accident, My wife it isn't fair, She had a child she's a mother She had no business being there. She just came at me from the pavement as if she didn't care Though I know that it was love not money made her brave enough to dare To let her consciounce give the orders that she just had to stop me there Like I was diving kids to auschwitz or a tank through tiannamen square And I just don't know where I can go now with this load I have to bear Cos theres a puncture underneath me I don't know how to repair, It's gonna stay with me forever now i swear. And in my dreams I'll see her still. And those are my hands on the wheel. But when she askes why, there's no reply