Company Man Lyrics

As a kid he was a little wild

You could tell he was a middle child

His parents would mutter potential as he passed by

He said he wouldn't go to Notre Dame

They said, we always thought he might be insane

So they let him move to Texas on the sly

Liberal philosophy, communist blasphemy, socialist hypocrisy

They said God does he have to be

So cavalier and indifferent, can't he even try

Ain't it funny how things change as the years pass by

Somehow he became a company man

He can't tell right from wrong

True love slips through his hands

He traded in his sanity for the perfect financial plan

Somehow he became a company man

An adolescent with a wedding band

Almost unconscious, trying to make a stand

Flying so high that no one could ever bring him down

His wife was sleeping in another bed

His eyes were a permanent shade of red

He would stay up all night just trying to find that sound

Bob Dylan parodies

Leonard Cohen tragedies

John Prine melodies

He thought that there had to be some kind of a

Sign that he hadn't found

Ain't it funny how things change as the years wind down

Somehow he became a company man

He can't tell right from wrong

True love slips through his hands

He traded in his sanity for the perfect financial plan

Somehow he became a company man

I met him just yesterday

He didn't have a word to say

All of the poems that once were stolen had gone dry

Like a piece of fresh home grown fruit

He was wearing a business suit

Adding points to his margin, downsizing and looking to buy

I remembered the years and the half frozen beers

The vagabond tears

And sneers of his peers

When they told him that someday he'd finally figure out why

Ain't it funny how things change as the years run dry

Somehow he became a company man

He can't tell right from wrong

True love slips through his hands

He traded in his sanity for the perfect financial plan

Somehow he became a company man