More songs by Jesse Welles
Description
Producer: Jesse Welles
Writer: Jesse Welles
Lyrics and translation
Original
I worked Saturdays at the satisfactory factory
After me there would be shift changeover
I'd quit being sober
I'd watch the planes fly over
Think about folks I knew
I used to know a few
I'd call up the number, say, "What's up, brother?
Today is another day, say, what's new?"
Talk and talk
Walk in circles
Around the block
Smack dab in the middle of the lower forty-eight
How could this be any slower than to go to Hell and wait?
Decatur
I'll see you later
Pulverized
Beat down by the mundane
Paralyzed
Goin' insane
Well, the satisfactory's still
Satisfactory, still
Gotta make a livin'
They ain't givin' 'em out
Now if I want my pride
I'd just as soon die
Than be lazy
Smack dab in the middle of the lower forty-eight
How could this be any slower than to go to Hell and wait?
Decatur
I'll see you later
I quit Saturdays at the satisfactory factory
After me there'd be plenty of time
Since I's off the line
I'd drink like a river
Pickled my liver
Watched takers and givers
Shiverin' in the cold, cold light
Now I ain't blamin' nobody for nothin'
But I got somethin' I can't stay
I gotta carry it away
I'd ring up the numbers, call 'em up
No one'd pick up
I guess we talked enough
Smack dab in the middle of the lower forty-eight
How could this be any slower than to go to Hell and wait?
Decatur
I'll see you later
Pulverized
Beat down by the mundane
Paralyzed
Goin' insane
Well, the satisfactory's still
Satisfactory, still
Gotta make a livin'
They ain't givin' 'em out
Now if I want my pride
I'd just as soon die
Than be lazy
Smack dab in the middle of the lower forty-eight
How could this be any different than to go to Hell and wait?
Decatur
I'll see you later
English translation
I worked Saturdays at the satisfactory factory
After me there would be shift changeover
I'd quit being sober
I'd watch the planes fly over
Think about folks I knew
I used to know a few
I'd call up the number, say, "What's up, brother?
Today is another day, say, what's new?"
Talk and talk
Walk in circles
Around the block
Smack dab in the middle of the lower forty-eight
How could this be any slower than to go to Hell and wait?
Decatur
I'll see you later
Pulverized
Beat down by the mundane
Paralyzed
Goin' insane
Well, the satisfactory's still
Satisfactory, still
Gotta make a livin'
They ain't givin' 'em out
Now if I want my pride
I'd just as soon die
Than be lazy
Smack dab in the middle of the lower forty-eight
How could this be any slower than to go to Hell and wait?
Decatur
I'll see you later
I quit Saturdays at the satisfactory factory
After me there'd be plenty of time
Since I's off the line
I'd drink like a river
Pickled my liver
Watched takers and givers
Shiverin' in the cold, cold light
Now I ain't blamin' nobody for nothin'
But I got somethin' I can't stay
I gotta carry it away
I'd ring up the numbers, call 'em up
No one'd pick up
I guess we talked enough
Smack dab in the middle of the lower forty-eight
How could this be any slower than to go to Hell and wait?
Decatur
I'll see you later
Pulverized
Beat down by the mundane
Paralyzed
Goin' insane
Well, the satisfactory's still
Satisfactory, still
Gotta make a livin'
They ain't givin' 'em out
Now if I want my pride
I'd just as soon die
Than be lazy
Smack dab in the middle of the lower forty-eight
How could this be any different than to go to Hell and wait?
Decatur
I'll see you later