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Don't Quit Your Day Job

by Buggy Jive

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I submitted a song to the Tiny Desk Contest about submitting a song to the Tiny Desk Contest. This is the studio version. All stuff by Buggy Jive.

You can watch the live performance version on YouTube here: youtu.be/A_enRruG29Y

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I'm just another singer-songwriter.
Raging. Navel gazing.
Angry belly buttons don't impress.
Yet all my friends every year this time be saying:
“Ain't you gonna enter Tiny Desk?"

I try too hard but also not hard enough.
Maybe I should pray to God.
Help me shoot my shot, shoot my shot.
Give it everything I got.
The Lord say: “Do not quit your day job.”

I'm just another songwriter
Who thinks he's clever going meta
But four of me is so grotesque
Four of me surely ain't fo’ mo’ times betta
Is it more enough for Tiny Desk?

I try too hard but also not hard enough.
Maybe I should pray to God.
Lord, help me shoot my shot, shoot my shot.
Give it everything I got.
The Lord say: “Do not quit your day job.”

The Lord gives and taketh away.
And taketh away.
Blessed be his name. Be his name.
This is what the Lord says:

“Mic check one, mic check check,
Buggy, check your ego behind that tiny desk.
You got the nerve to compare your day job to Job’s distress?
Regret sucks when it comes through success!
You wanna retire by the loophole of five-four and
join that FIRE community gang.
But be wary of them gold burying libertarian contrarians
Seeking immunity from everythang.
Seeking actions without consequence. Acting with impunity.
Even though equality ain't equity ain't equal opportunity.
They quote the dreams of a King without fail
Cuz they ain't never heard of no letter from no Birmingham jail.
Actin’ a fool like Atticus in Act Two,
Seeking Tom Robinson's acquittal
While getting paid 15 million dollars a year
To tell n****s to shutup and dribble.
So stand yo' ass up!
Summon your ancestors' fortitude
Put your back and your whole ass into it,
Cuz baby you still gots work to do.”

I try too hard but also not hard enough.
I’m trying and trying and trying and trying.

So I’m shouting up to the heavens
I ain't trying to betray God.
So I’m shouting up to the heavens
Cuz I’m kinda tryna sway God.
Turnin' it up to eleven.
The Lord got slay goals for his slay squad.
And he shouts down his eleventh commandment:
"Thou shalt not quit thy day job."

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released March 15, 2023
All stuff produced and performed by Buggy Jive.

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Buggy Jive Albany, New York

BUGGY JIVE is a soul rock singer-songwriter quietly uploading music from a basement somewhere in Upstate New York.

Equal parts Zeppelin and D’Angelo and Prince and Joni in sound and sensibility, his lyrics often mine the literature of the past to make sense of the present – from Ellison to Morrison to Eliot to Didion.

“Literary Kravitz,” as some say. ... more

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