Paycheck To Paycheck

(album: One To Grow On - 2021)

On Monday morning I'm a-hemming and a-hawing trying to get myself in gear
I'm on a hard-hat crew 'cause the bills are due and I'm in up to my ears
But come Friday night I'll be feeling right when I'm cashing my check downtown
Where the liquor's sold and the beers are cold and the jukebox turned up loud

I'm living paycheck to paycheck
One quarter at a time
I just dropped one in a jukebox
I can't hold myself in line
Tell the IRS to shove it
And give me eleven twenty-nine
I'm living paycheck to paycheck
And I don't waste a dime

I been churning and a-burning and a-working on the weekends for going on fifteen years
I tried to save my pay for a Chevrolet but then I spent it on fifteen beers
Now I got a bank loan on a two tone Pontiac GTO
Well Paycheck in the tape deck and blaring on the radio

I'm living paycheck to paycheck
One quarter at a time
I just dropped one in a jukebox
I can't hold myself in line
Tell the IRS to shove it
And give me eleven twenty-nine
I'm living paycheck to paycheck
And I don't waste a dime

I've got an empty bottle and a broken heart and you're still on my mind
I'm living paycheck to paycheck
And I don't waste a dime

I'm living paycheck to paycheck
One quarter at a time
And I don't waste a dime