You'd think we jumped out of the ooze Already wearing our wristwatches The moon controls the time of the tide You know it's never stopping From womb to work And work to sleep From time to time And week to week Let's use our welfare checks to Play the lottery Use the winnings for our new Frontal Lobotomies We all catch ourselves in the act Of gasping up for air Our inhibitions fall like bricks Down the tall and narrow stairs From womb to work And work to sleep From time to time And week to week Yeah! Let's use our welfare checks to Play the lottery Use the winnings for our new Frontal lobotomies Try to forget the trouble of the Working people's blues Get too drunk and watch the evening news If you wake up in the morning And you don't like the person you are Don't like the person you are Well that's alright baby You can just change On your nights or your weekends or you next cigarette break Oh yeah? Well you know what we're gonna do You know what we're all gonna do? Let's use our welfare checks to Play the lottery Use the winnings for our new Frontal lobotomies Try to forget the trouble of the Working people's blues Get too drunk and watch the evening news