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Saving Private Johnny Lyrics by Johnny Sebastian

People Are Mammals Too

2021

[Intro]
4!
Hup, 2, 3, 4
Hup, 2, 3, 4
Hup, 2, 3, 4
Hup, 2, 3, 4
[Chorus]
Saving Private Johnny
My shirt and tie get bloody
A long way from the college years
Puff your chest, deny your fears
Saving Private Johnny
I fight my war for money
(Saving, saving, saving, saving, saving Private Johnny)
[Verse 1]
I hope my hands don't fail me now
The keyboard clicks in my cubicle sound like gunshots
Look around, the enemy is on the prowl
I was trapped inside of a coal box prison
Every sale, every stock, I just hold position
For the wife, the kids, gotta run another mission
In the same uniform
(Is this even really living?)
[Chorus]
Saving Private Johnny
My shirt and tie get bloody
A long way from the college years
Puff your chest, deny your fears
Saving Private Johnny
I fight my war for money
A long way from the college years
Fears
[Instrumental]
(Alright 9 to 5 gentlemen, 9 to 5)
(Put your back into it)
(What am I doing? What is this for?)
(At ease! At ease soldier)
Saving Private Johnny
(You call me sir when I talk to you, soldier, you call me sir)
(Oh, you think you’re funny!)
(9 to 5)
Saving
(Type! Type! Sit and type!)
(Get up!)
(Let's get moving ladies)
(We're moving, good morning)
Private Johnny
(Sha-sha ay, sha-sha oh!)
[Verse 2]
(Ay!) It’s not only that I feel like I got more to be
The problem is I have a problem with authority
I see bosses as drill sergeants dumping out my neat foot lockers
A cubicle's a prison, don't you tell me that it isn't
The mission is smoother when you don't know who it is you're killin'
So derealize and pay the water cooler a visit
Either I die or I double down and move positions
I feel it screaming
I feel it running
I'll put those music dreams inside the gutter
I’ll shut up, I’ll put work ethic over ingenuity
I feel like the Private's dying and something’s very new in me!
[Chorus]
Saving Private Johnny (dear god!)
My shirt and tie get bloody (uh)
Saving Private Johnny
I fight my war for money (hup, 2, 3, 4, hup, 2, 3, 4)
[Verse 3]
I hate it more than I hated you
This is a war, this is a zoo
Like a stain in the brain and I can't move past it
PTSD, I was drafted
Look
[Chorus]
Saving Private Johnny (I was drafted, I was drafted)
My shirt and tie get bloody (I was drafted, I was drafted)
Saving Private Johnny (I was drafted, I was drafted)
(I was drafted, I was drafted)
[Outro]
(I was dra-)
I don't know what I've been told, now
Private Johnny
I don’t know what I've been told
Private Johnny
I don't know what I've been told
Private J-
Credits
Johnny Sebastian

Johnny Sebastian

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