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Sunday night I'm remembering
The death in my eyes that Monday morning brings
I'd stay home if I could
But that won't do no good
Or keep you in the style you're accustomed to
Days of futile tasks
Do whatever the bosses ask
Days of futile tasks
Till I come home to you
Once upon a time we manufactured things
Now we just make time, time for more suffering
I just happened to pass by
Heard a secretary cry
Seems like no one remembered "Secretary Week"
Days of futile tasks
Do whatever the bosses ask
Days of futile tasks
Till I come home to you
And when I'm laying down beside you
I'm still thinking about the job
And when I dream, I dream that I'm on a train
That's taking me back to the job
I need me an energy drink
Maybe a miracle pill
To get me over the hump
But not over the hill
Well it's somebody's birthday
They're passing around cake
It's always someone's birthday
I could scream
Days of futile tasks
Do whatever the bosses ask
Days of futile tasks
Till I come home to you
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Anti-Stress Zen Garden
02:57
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Anti-Stress Zen Garden
written by Serene Dominic, 2014
Every morning it’s the same old fuss
Someone new is thrown under the bus
The only variation I can see is wondering who the new recruit will be
I DON’T KNOW I DON’T KNOW HOW FAR I MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN
IF IT WASN’T FOR MY ANTI-STRESS ZEN GARDEN (2X)
Life’s a beach, a little patch of sand
Small enough to fit inside your hand
Folk can ridicule me left to right
This miniature rake has probably saved their lives
I DON’T KNOW I DON’T KNOW IF I’D HAVE TURNED OUT ROTTEN
IF IT WASN’T FOR MY ANTI-STRESS ZEN GARDEN (2X)
Where I don’t need anybody and I don’t want anybody
and I don’t love anybody, everything’s already turned to sand!
Once I was out on the ledge because I lost all sense
I lost my job, I lost my house I lost my, umm, my pretty little baby
I’m not sitting on a fence about it so don’t you get-a me started
Unless you want to hear about all of its restorative powers
I DON’T KNOW I DON’T KNOW HOWMUCH I HAVE HAVE GOTTEN
IF IT WASN’T FOR MY ANTI-STRESS ZEN GARDEN (2X)
Where I don’t need anybody and I don’t want anybody and I don’t love anybody
© 2014 Serene Dominic for Onus Music.
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Filibuster
02:40
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FILIBUSTER
Written by Serene Dominic 2014
Call another meeting, get everybody involved
Talk and talk and talk but nothing ever gets resolved
Wearing me down
Into the ground
Fa fa fa fa la la la la ba ba ba ba ba
Filibuster !
I disagree and try to make sense of it all
Them you accuse me of doing the old stonewall
Cause you love the sound
Of your sputtering mouth
Fa fa fa fa la la la la ba ba ba ba ba
Filibuster !
You blather on like nothing else
Like you’re doing us all favors
Gridlock and dead end still you go on and on
Better pack a lunch, we’re in for the long con
Everyone wants this one
Except for that one
Fa fa fa fa la la la la
ba ba ba ba ba Filibuster !
Fa fa fa fa la la la la
ba ba ba ba ba Filibuster !
© 2014 Serene Dominic for Onus Music.
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The Girl From Analytics
02:53
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The Girl From Analytics
The girl from Analytics passed my way
For her 10:40 meeting every day
Whats the mystery
She's sworn to secrecy
She's seen the big board
If I could find keywords to make her care
She'd know my heart, I could direct her there
Could she ever love
And guy who just writes stuff
She knows as "bad code"
Maybe she's come to eliminate my job
Destroy my life somebody make her stop
Still I want her... I want her...want her for her mind
The girl from Analytics
The girl from Analytics passed again
She's from Somalia, maybe Pakistan
I crane my neck to see her walk away from me
To the room with the big board
Do they arrange marriages where she's from
I guess I gotta impress her dad and mom
She's never either or
Knows what she's looking for
And it's never bad code.
Maybe she thinks I don;t produce enough
Maybe she wants to outsource all this love
Still I want her.... Still I want her
Still I want her... I want her...want her for her mind
The girl from Analytics
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The Office Lovers
03:12
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The Office Lovers
written by Serene Dominic
Taking their lunch breaks ten minutes apart
So water cooler talking doesn’t starting
They rendezvous at the Shanghai Cafe
It’s in another area code so goddamned far away
The office lovers . Everybody knows .
The office lovers .
In their respective departments working hard
Projects of which they’re not slowed to talk
The secret ripping apart Sam and Kate
Their employee manual says they aren’t allowed to date
The office lovers . Everybody knows .
The office lovers .
They’re facing termination with each stolen kiss
No one remembers where their employee manual is
How long must they hide? Must they run?
Link arms and sing “We Shall Overcome?”
Human resources keeps getting the slip
If relationships are work, what’s work relationships?
The office lovers . Everybody knows .
The office lovers .
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Selfie
02:10
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Selfie
Written By Serene Dominic copyright 2014
There's a guy whose gift for funny led him to be known as Selfie
For the portrait he took of himself with the copier machine
People gathered round his cubicle and say "boy that is something"
It hung there till the sun turned all the colors aquamarine
Maybe there is more to him than he will ever show
When the workday's over, he's always the last to go
There's someone for everybody do there must be one for Selfie
Someone who will love him for more than just his left ass cheek
Life has greater meaning but I wonder what that means to Selfie
Love can move a mountain, it can bring a feller to his knees
Maybe in a truthful moment outside center three
He'll tell you that cracking jokes ain't all it's cracked up to be
Life can be a dream but tonight's a sleepless night for Selfie
Will he always be someone that no one can know?
Will he always be someone that no one can know?
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COME POWER POINTING WITH ME
written by Serene Dominic
If you got a point worth making and it needs illucidating
Come Power Pointing with Me
If you got yourself a thesis but it’s on the ground in pieces
Come Power Pointing with Me
Well it’s an outasite software, Bill Gates made it for you
But if you’re no good with a manual I’ll tell you what you should do
Familiarize with the clicker so your presentation’s quicker
Come Power Pointing with Me
Make a file then duplicate it then you know you’ve really made it
Come Power Pointing with Me
And you can win the whole room over if you tell a joke or two
I hope you’re not one of those peoplewho hates when people look at you
And if you get nervous - Picture the audience naked
Unless you get nervous - Picturing the audience naked
Plan a Q&A Session cause there’ll be lots of questions
Come Power Pointing with Me
Now your video’s embedded there’s no need to get big headed
Just Power Point Here with Me
Now you can win the whole room over coz you told a joke or two
And you shouldn’t feel surprised when everybody’s looking at you
Come Power Pointing with Me! Come Power Pointing with Me!
© 2014 Serene Dominic for Onus Music.
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Content
02:42
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CONTENT
There’s a lot of world that you don’t see
When you’re at a desk, 8 to 5:30
You can’t be everywhere but it ain’t no sin
If you’re losing ground, I can fill you in
WITH CONTENT! I’LL MAKE YOU CONTENT
YOU DON’T HAVE TO HEAR ABOUT IT OUT IN THE STREET
CONTENT! LOTS OF CONTENT
ALL THE DATA THAT YOU’LL EVER NEED
There’s a bigger world that you will miss
Toiling overtime from 8 to 6
Eyes glued to a ViewSonic monitor
You've forgotten where all the wild things were
CONTENT! YOU COULD BE CONTENT
IN THE TALL GRASS UNDERNEATH A TREE
CONTENT! WE ARE ALL CONTENT
WE’RE JUST NOT WHERE WE’RE SUPPOSED TO BE
© 2014 Serene Dominic for Onus Music.
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Mañana
02:59
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Mañana!
written by Serene Dominic
Mañana! You were never promised to anyone
Mañana! But I’d outlive the world to see you once
Mañana! I’m trying hard to be more worthy of
Mañana I’m just a man who fell so hard in love
You are the dream that finally came when I spoke your name
You are the dream that finally came
Please let me stay here in your arms
Mañana! I want to be present in all you are
Mañana! ! I want to ride upon your shooting star
Mañana! I am a better Scrooge because of you
Mañana! Showing me how much I have been a fool-LISTEN
Sometimes I scare myself when I remember goodbye
Sometimes I scare myself when I remember goodbye
You are the dream that finally came when I spoke your name
You are the dream that finally came
Please let me stay here in your arms
© 2014 Serene Dominic for Onus Music.
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Working Man
02:59
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WORKING MAN
Written by Serene Dominic
I am working man. I don’t make a lot of money
But what I have on hand is yours
Because I love you I’d give anything to you
All of my time except for the nine hours I give to the man
I can take what they give me as long as you’re with me
With you I’ve got something Without you I’m nothing
Working for nothing, I’m working for nothing
If not for your love
You are a working girl, recently unemployed
You’ve so much go offer you’ll find work, work on no time
Whenever I see you, I know I don’t have to worry
Things will get better sometime, sometime after five
I can take what they give me as long as you’re with me
With you I’ve got something Without you I’m nothing
Working for nothing, I’m working for nothing
If not for your love
I am a working man. Don’t take much to make me happy
Just coming home to you with a fine bottle of wine
Because I love you I’d give anything to you
All of my time except for the nine hours I slave for the man
© 2014 Serene Dominic for Onus Music.
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Sweet Interference/3 PM Sugar Crash
written by Serene Dominic, 2014
Sweet interference
I wait for clearance
Need someone to micro-manage me
Ooo wee
Sweet interference
Time, perseverance
Compliment till I get what I need
Yes indeed
Tell me what to do
I’m not brown nosing you
Can’t you tell it’s love that you see?
Oh how the hours slip away from me
When I’m not with you
It feels like I’m on trial for my life
And if there is something that I haven’t
done that I’ve got to do
Well then tell me tell me tell me
Please I’m begging of you
repeat 1st verse & 2nd verse
chorus
© 2014 Serene Dominic
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Can I Be Forgiven Now?
02:51
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CAN I BE FORGIVEN NOW?
Written by Serene Dominic, 2014
The king in exile can’t renounce the throne, la la la la, la la la la la la
Without his love he’s a man all alone, la la la la, la la la la la la
But can he please be forgiven now?
Can you find it in your heart to love him somehow?
Can he please be forgiven now?
The queen says “No! No! No!”
Back at the castle the shadows grow long, la la la la, la la la la la la
None of the servents notice he’s gone, la la la la, la la la la la la
But can he please be forgiven now?
Can you find it in your heart to love him somehow?
Can he please be forgiven now?
The queen says “No! No! No!”
No candle in the window, no moon in sight, la la la la, la la la la la la
The king wanders aimlessly in the night la la la la, la la la la la la
© 2014 Serene Dominic for Onus Music.
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Turndown Night Service
04:16
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TURNDOWN NIGHT SERVICE
I - I’ve dreamed my dream of extreme convenience
Peppermints on my pillow in this sea of loneliness
How thoughtful that they pulled back the dovay
so I can slide under the sheets
That’s why I always asks for the turndown service
It’s the only love that’s guaranteed
To the weary business traveler suffering Kentucky on his own
Who knows there’s a differnt turndown service
Waiting for him back home
My spirits are bolstered now in this room of blue and brown
My darkest hour of need
That’s why I ask for the turndown night service
It’s the only love that’s guaranteed
I - I’ve dreamed my dream
of extreme convenience
Peppermints on my pillow
in this sea of loneliness
How thoughtful that they
pulled back the dovay
so I can slide under the sheets
That’s why I always asks for
the turndown service
It’s the only love that’s guaranteed
© 2014 Serene Dominic for Onus Music.
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