Keep Your Day Job
Navigating Life's Tightrope: Embracing Resilience in 'Keep Your Day Job'
Lyrics
So keep your day job
Emphasizes the importance of maintaining a regular job.
Regardless of what you thought you knew
Suggests that preconceived notions or beliefs may not be accurate.
Yeah and don't let em get off
Advises against allowing others to take advantage of your vulnerabilities.
On all the things that make you lose your cool
Caution against losing composure over trivial matters.
You gotta play it cool
Encourages maintaining a composed and collected demeanor.
So keep your day job
Reiterates the importance of retaining a regular job.
So keep your day job
Emphasizes the repeated advice to keep a day job.
And keep your head on
Advises maintaining composure despite attempts to disrupt one's stability.
Regardless of how they try to strip your screws
Encourages perseverance in the face of attempts to destabilize or disturb.
And keep your wick long
Suggests the importance of resilience and endurance in challenging situations.
Regardless of how they try to burn your fuse
Warns against allowing external factors to negatively impact one's emotional state.
They're gunna burn your fuse
Anticipates challenges that may test one's resilience.
So keep your day job
Reiterates the core advice of keeping a day job for stability.
So keep your day job
Emphasizes the repeated advice to retain regular employment.
He used to like going to work
Narrates a past scenario of someone enjoying their job.
He used to work long hours
Describes the person's dedication through long working hours.
Saved up some money
Indicates positive outcomes, such as financial savings.
Got all cocky about it
Highlights a shift in attitude, becoming overly confident about job security.
Assumed his job was going to be there forever
Expresses the assumption of job permanence leading to potential consequences.
So I'll keep my day job
Reaffirms the singer's commitment to keeping a day job despite uncertainties.
Regardless of what I thought I knew
Reflects on the need to adhere to the advice regardless of personal beliefs.
And I'll keep my head on
Encourages maintaining composure and focus in challenging situations.
Regardless of how they try to strip my screws
Underlines the importance of resilience despite attempts to unsettle.
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