THE COST OF LIVING WELL IS THE BEST REVENGE Lyrics

'You look more and more like a Tech CEO each time I see you'

Said my best friend as we met for lunch at Nobu

True, I'd let myself go

Bought a longneck wool skivvy and done my own hairdo

Next came the unironic denim and a focus on 'doing' words

It's a miracle I haven't moved to Perth

Gave my friends a wide berth

Disrupt desert to reignite consumer mirth

But for what it's worth the pain still hurts

Yeah for what it's worth the pain still hurts

I enable friendship lunches

I circle back to act on my hunches

Did you ever really think for a moment I could care about you

I read the paper in earnest

I would be the first in the furnace

But at least the smoke from my body

Could block out the sun for a second or two

And in the centre of the ventricles it starts

Worming it's way all around my heart

That's broken in two from a failed resume

Compounded by an overdraft fee and that's that

Moment that radicalised me

It wasn't the years of foreign policy or genocide

But when my hip pocket got burnt by AI

It's all fun and games until I can't afford a tie-dye

I receive positive feedback

I'm on my knees for a corporate kickback

I'll tell you anything you want me to

If it means I get an Amazon gift card too

I read the paper in earnest

I would be the first in the furnace

But at least the smoke from my body

Could block out the sun for a second or two

But I've run out of ideas