As the Worm Turns

Album: We Care a Lot (1985)
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  • One day you're thinking that maybe you're feelin' better
    You're probably an okay person, if only you had a job
    Whoa, through the hollow tombs, I can see them
    Through their mouths, I can hear them prayin' for pain
    It's only a game

    Oh, listen, man, I know
    That things are really rough
    And everybody gets you
    And life is really tough
    But I know that deep down inside
    There's a feeling that rides
    All the way to the end
    Ah!

    Thursday you sit in your room with the lights turned out
    And you don't (don't) answer the door (door)
    Friday morning looks sunny and bright
    Like it's going to be a good day
    It would be if only you had a job

    Time is on your side, you're young
    Don't waste your time today
    Oh, oh, oh Writer/s: Bill David Gould, Charles Henry Iii Mosley, James Blanco Martin, Michael Andrew Bordin, Roddy Christopher Bottum
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group, Word Collections Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Luna Loud from Royal Woods, MichiganIt should be noted that this song was recorded in the studio at least twice: Once with Chuck Mosley on vocals that appears on the We Care A Lot album, and one with Mike Patton on vocals that was one of the outtakes for the Angel Dust sessions.

    I think the reference to the soap opera can be interpreted to represent how some people make their situation out to be more dramatic than it really is. Though I've also heard that the phrase, "As the worm turns" was also an idiom to mean that someone's luck was about to change from bad to good.

    I love the synth riff, it's one that I learned when I was in the beginning stages of playing the keys, it's simple but requires proper fingering technique to execute right and without your fingers cramping up.
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