Handleman’s Revenge Todd Snider

They named that goddamn kiss-ass Handleman
Vice President of Human Resources or something
He stood up and made a speech about how
We would all have to work even harder now
I thought, Harder now, harder at what?
I would give up anything to get up and walk out of here, but

I'm stuck on the corner of sanity and madness
I'm looking them over, I can't see a difference
Making money out of paper, making paper out of trees
We're making so much money we can hardly breathe

You ought to hear the shit that I get from my daughtеr
She says that she can't stand the sight of thе car I bought her
I ruined her life forever, she don't ride a ragtop
Her and her mother spend my money pretty much nonstop
They're trying to break me for the sake of the neighborhood
They want everybody up and down the street to think we're doing good

We're stuck on the corner of sanity and madness
Looking them over, I can't see a difference
Making money out of paper, making paper out of trees
We're making so much money we can hardly breathe

I didn't even want to study economics
My parents made me because they said it would be practical
I can't make my kid do a goddamn thing I tell him to
That kid's an unrepentant radical
He is as unimpressed by these plaques in my cubicle
As I am secretly impressed with his ability
To look at everything so completely irresponsibly