When the week ends

when the week ends

Lyrics

staying late at work on a friday night
eat a banana for dinner
call it a day. surf the internet
until you fall asleep at your desk

listen in headphones to the happy mix you made
read about the things you used to do
on the internet. you used to be so cool
how did it turn out that now you're

working late again on friday of all nights?
you take a break to think about
all the things you'd say if saturday
were the last day ever

drinking diet coke and thinking about
going home and changing the strings
on the acoustic guitar
but not doing it

you'd only play the only chords you know
in various successions with varying degrees
of success. you don't care
you've given up on love songs for now

you could go out, paint the town red
you would dress to kill and stop their hearts dead
but you could really get something done
since you're the only one still there

sometimes it's easier to work through it
to forget about it
and after a while you don't even notice when the week ends

at home the kitchen table has been painted red
and the walls are hung with waiting paper
but if you have the time you just mine old lyrics
you've got nothing new to say

when you get bored you write some email
to people you don't really know anymore
and ask them how's life? how's grad school?
do you ever hear from, oh dear, what's his name?

oh you could go out and paint the town red
your smile would slay a thousand happy men
but you could really get something done
uninterrupted by anyone

sometimes it's easier to work through it
to forget all about it
and after a while you don't even notice when the week ends

sometimes it's the easiest thing to do and i should know
i'm working so hard to forget about you, too

Music

Chords

(all with capo on third fret)

verse:

G C G C
Am Em Am D

prechorus

Am Em Am Em
C D C D

chorus

Em Em D
Em Em D (hangs out while building (in my head at least))
G D C D
G D C D

outro

G

Structure

good lord.

verse x 5
prechorus
chorus

verse x 2
prechorus
chorus

outro

Author's Notes

good lord. i guess i meant this to be funny but on the whole it's rather sad instead. however, we have a capo! hurrah! this means i don't know what the chords are though.