Eighty-three hours worked this week, that is. I'm leaving today around the 85 mark or so. A couple months back I rushed out to the store to buy Owen Temple's new CD, Right Here and Now, in part because of this one song, which has become my mantra. Without going too in-depth to what I am doing, it's largely related to cost analysis as it pertains to billing. A thousand dollars here, a thousand dollars there. Endless negotiations between companies, handed off to me and materialized in a structured form. A good-will concession by my company or theirs equals twice my annual salary. An obscure computational error is three times that. In our favor, in theirs, evening out in the end. The term "millions" tossed about casually and assigned to proper work orders by the program that I write. Money thrown from this work order to that one to better ascertain efficiency rates and quality costing. Money endlessly moving around...


Move Around Money
Owen Temple

Concrete and chrome, I'm spending time
Getting more of what's yours for less of mine
In fluorescent daylight above the ground
Nobody's life made richer, money moves around

The transfer of wealth is the greatest good
Don't use imagination if you think you could
Art's by corporations, mass produced today
It's more uniform, consistent and it's faster that way

Chorus:
To move around money
Watch it fly
Move around money
Money never dies

Why bother living when you got TV
Eas as changing channels, I know what I want to say
Who's got time to consider what it means to be free
I got sitcoms and commercials, that's enough for me

I'm bought and sold, I'm glad I got the chance
To express myself with Gap khaki pants
I think I'll make a statement, I've got something to say
I use American Express when I'm asked to pay

Chorus

I know they care how I feel at my company
Cause getting sad's bad for productivity
They say added value's what they really want from me
Since I was little is that what I hoped to be

This is the real world not make believe
If money doesn't make you happy then you'd better just leave
You got to make a living so that you can someday
Comfortably regret the life that slipped away

Chorus

Move around money
While you got your chance
Move around money
You can watch it dance

Lyrics copyrighted by Owen, I'm sure. I found them courtesy of Texas Troubadour, which is a great site for those interested in Texas country music.