I’m so far away from where I want to be
Caught up in what should or shouldn’t be
Such a difference between what is and what ought to be
Oh, it’s just another day
The bars are full but there’s nobody there
Just the drunks in the corners too stoned to care
And the boardwalk psychos who reach out for my hair
Oh, it’s just another day
There’s a crazy man walking in the middle of the street
With the cars so close the tires practically crush his feet
But he’s marching to his own internal beat
Oh, it’s just another day
He steps back onto the curb once the light turns green
And turns down the alley popping jellybeans
See him passed out on the sidewalk OD’d on Listerine
Oh, it’s just another day
Just another day
The same old scene
Just another day
The same worn-out theme
Just another day
How many ways to sing
Just another day
About the same old tired thing.
The office yentas dish out the dirt
The married overhill bitch tries to flirt
Jehovah’s Jerkoffs do their best to convert
Oh, it’s just another day
I sit at my desk plucking out my eyelashes
While the tech heads repair the usual system crashes
The emergency warning buzzes and flashes
Oh, it’s just another day
Well, I got on the phone and spoke with Denise
She wanted to know why her fee was increased
That’s just the way it goes, I said, just deal and make peace
Oh, it’s just another day
The nameless faceless lost human herd
Full of losers and geeks and yutzes and nerds
Just moves along complacently with nary a word
Oh, it’s just another day
Just another day
Killing precious time
Just another day
Fashioning songs out of loose lines
Just another day
The way to get there from here
Just another day
Has gone and disappeared.
The old hotel is getting ripped down
The construction destruction going on in this town
Kinda leaves you feeling knocked out in the first round
Oh, it’s just another day
So I get in my car and take a drive
To see any signs of this place coming alive
Will there be something happening once I arrive
Oh, it’s just another day
Just another day
Pages and walks
Just another day
Dates and talks
Just another day
Musings and songs
Just another day
Righting some wrongs.
Yesterday was a day that went wrong from beginning to end
Stuck doing things I couldn’t comprehend
It just flat out sucked—just give up trying to pretend
It was just another day
But maybe today will be better—one can always hope
Can’t go on living each day at the end of your rope
Or sliding away down the slippery slope
Oh, it’s just another day
Just another day
A day in the life
Just another day
Stresses and strife
Just another day
The usual things
Just another day
Of which many still sing.
©2023 The Hesh Inc.

There are so many songs with the title or theme of "just another day": Paul McCartney, John Mellencamp, Jon Secada, Dr. Dre, Queen Latifah, Lady Gaga, Oingo Boingo, and others. So I didn't feel so bad adding my voice to the chorus of voices bewailing the mundane. Since I entered the work force, it has pretty much been my life.
In the early 2000s, I was writing just about a song per day, during my lunch breaks at work. The activity helped keep me sane in what seemed to be an endless conveyor belt of mind-numbingly similar days, hoping for a brighter future or at least a weekend or other occasion when I could sit at the piano or keyboard and play for an audience. On the afternoon when I wrote this, I had started off just scratching a few lyrics, but then I started combing through my notebook full of throwaway lines I had accumulated since I started working, and by the time I had to go back to the office for the second half of the day, I had written over 2 pages worth. No music though ... but that can be taken care of.
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