For Those Who Think They're Ahead of the Game

Chick walks down the street
Says hi, I say hi
She's alright
She's nothing special
But she's alright

Probably don't think much of me
Sitting around
Drinking soda all day
Talking to whoever walks by

But what are you gonna do about that?

She's alright, I mean
She's nothing special

Cosino lost his job last month
Now he sits around
Marjean lost his job two weeks ago
Now he sits around
Everybody's just sitting around
Saying 'Hey'
Asking what's going on

Ain't shit goin' on
But we ask

We're not the bad-off bunch
At least, we're not the baddest of the bad-off bunch

We're smart
And not just street-smart either
But like, real, some-of-us-read-books smart

We saved
We put our money away
Some of it's even in banks

Like, accounts and shit

We saw the devil coming down the street
Saw the writing on paychecks
Counting down

This will be your third-to-last paycheck
This will be your second-to-last
Going, going, gone

We didn't want to wind up like our dads
Depressed on a couch
Going through the channels
Then going back and going through them again

See if the news was new
See if there were any game shows
That you don't need luck or intelligence to win

Saying--'I'm going to go on "Wheel of Fortune."
I'm going to go on "Love Connection"'

And we'd say 'Dad, they don't give you money on "Love Connection"'
And he'd say 'Yeah, but they pay for the meal'

We weren't going to be like that
We were going to stay ahead of the game

So here we are
Ahead

There's a chick walking down the street
Looking for a man with a job

Keep looking, girl

Keep looking

We're all ahead of the game
But the game's catching up
The game's catching up
Real fast