The Grind - Moonshake

I used to think I was independent cause I had got up and left for the South

But that’s where the grind caught up with me again

I found the town when I arrived, got seasonal work and then settled for a year

in a cheap first floor with a boyfriend

But he wasn’t the one

And seasons change the same wherever you are

So, you’re bumbling along not unhappily in your routine when he appears

And suddenly you’re wretched

You’ve let yourself down and there’s only one way out of this

And the car door’s wide open

You open your eyes and you’re in the passenger seat

The too familiar town scene in the rear view

And all you’ve got in is your work clothes and a big grin

You’ve left everything behind again

But you’ve left him plenty to remember you by

You’re both doing pick up work

Keeping one step ahead of the grind that spreads like an invading army through

everyone’s minds and keep them ticking over in the engine of the blind

Until one day, you’re looking at each other

And you can both see the symptoms of the disease in your routine affections

In your private language, in your new friends' assumptions

And you wake up one morning and you roll to the middle of the bed and your feet

are cold and there’s no note

The inevitable slaps your face but you don’t know if it’s saying «I told you so»

or if it’s saying that you’re a fool for expecting anything different

Now you’re stranded in a foreign country with no money and a few fair weather

friends and they’re telling you that constant drifting is a means to a low end

I know I’m in a jam and it’s not gonna be much fun

I’m settling like dust

My daydream’s packed his case and run

But I don’t have any regrets for all the people left behind

Because their disapproving faces show the great cancer of the grind