This song is about the artist’s reluctance to work and his resentment of how society forces people to get mindless, minimum-wage jobs in order to survive. The song could be interpreted as simply indolence as the title “workshy” suggests, with the artist wanting money while staying in his bedroom all...
It's kinda fucking messed up
That I'm forced
Into getting a job
And then to work
For the rest of my life, and then I retire
When I've already been used up
I don't want to
Fucking work
I just want to
Stay in my own bedroom
I really need some pay
But I don't wanna slave
Away until I'm dead
Just for a minimum wage
And I don't wanna learn
To become another
Cog which just slowly turns
I really don't want to
Stay in school
'Cause I can't concentrate on who
Is even teaching
The bullshit they're feeding
Me to make me a tool
And I'd rather not be a robot
Typing stuff onto a little box
'Cause thats exactly what I already am
And I'm fucking dumb to make that my career plan
I don't want to
Fucking work
But I want some
Fucking cash in my hand
I really need some pay
But I don't wanna slave
Away until I'm dead
Just for a minimum wage
And I don't wanna learn
To become another
Cog which just slowly turns