If you want to feel nihilistic, here’s the working class song for you. The Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon – Working Class Hero And even though you’re happy with what you do, there’s just something comforting about knowing you have a home to come back to.Īll work, no play lyrics: Saving nickles, saving dimes Linda Ronstadt’s version of this Ray Orbison original really makes you empathize with the longing she feels as she tours with her band. I’m supposed to get a raise week, you know damn well I won’t I’ll be working here forever, at least until I die Whether you’re a bus boy, a bartender, or a lady of the night, this band knows how you’re just doing what you can to survive in this expensive world.Īll work, no play lyrics: Some days won’t end ever and some days pass on by This is a song that goes out to all those people who work so hard just to make ends meet. Huey Lewis & the News – Workin’ for a Livin’ Me na care if me tired, tired, tired, tired, tired, tired When you a gon’ learn, learn, learn, learn, learn, learn There’s something ’bout that work, work, work, work, work, work

You see me do me dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt

You see me I be work, work, work, work, work, work Now that she’s had enough, she just wants to work and live the good life without an ungrateful man in her life.Īll work, no play lyrics: Work, work, work, work, work, work Work is a song about how Rihanna’s out there busting her ass working, while her deadbeat boyfriend is just using her as a pretty ornament on his arm. Relationships take work too, as Rihanna so skillfully sings in this hit song. Working hard isn’t just confined to working on one’s job. Vocalist Tim McIlrath says, “It’s talking a lot about the 9-to-5, dog-eat-dog lifestyle, and what we are asked to do to simply make ends meet nowadays, and I think it’s a feeling shared by people all around the world and especially in this country.”Īll work, no play lyrics: We crawl on our knees for youīut sometimes dreams just don’t come true In this song, they sing about all the workers out there who work so hard and yet get paid so little. Rise Against has never been known to shy away from singing about social issues. Rise Against – Re-Education Through Labor This then gave rise to a song for all the hardworking waitresses out there and to all the customers who should be treating them right.Īll work, no play lyrics: It’s a sacrifice working day to day The woman told Donna that she works two jobs and was really tired. wherein she saw an attendant taking a nap in the bathroom. She was inspired by a trip to a restaurant in L.A. I swear sometimes that man is out to get meĭonna Summer – She Works Hard for the Moneyĭonna Summer pays tribute to all the waitresses out there who are bussing table day in, day out.

Song go hard or go home