company man

COMPANY MAN

If music be the food of love - Company Man
Loves his bread and butter - Company Man
And knits his own muesli - Company Man
Got an apple for the foreman - Company Man

Line manager on the night shift
Or copywriting adverts
Proud and hollow on the back bench
Wears a branded hair shirt
Doing FA at the FA - Company Man
He's got a swingometer - Company Man
"Put me down for overtime" - Company Man
"Hello, hello, hello" - Company Man

Wrist ringed with coloured plastic
Calls for extra security
To search the plant workers
For advance copies of his new CD

The target setter's bonus sends a postcard from Bahrain
And by the watercooler the Sure Start staff hum a smug refrain
A flicker of wood as he uses a cell 'phone on the train
Instrumental relation - Happy days are here again

Clocking on with gusto
Got Kit Kats in the canteen
Coked up video commissioner
Some editorial go-between
Got ya name on ya stapler - Company Man
Like a trendy vicar - Company Man
The two things I like about you... - Company Man
...is your face - Company Man