Do You Have the Nerve?

from Cement by Simon C. Patterson feat. Kolya Bichan

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Do you have the nerve
To fight for your advertising agency
Enlist in the copywriters’ infantry
Go out hunting heads

Do you have the nerve
To write down the good news for governments
When they put nails in the butter vats
And glass in the eggs

Do you have the nerve
Do you have the guts
To always nod your head
Forgetting ifs and buts

If you have the nerve
And if you have the urge
To trample all the rest
You might survive the purge

Do you have the nerve
To battle your fellow employees
But if the management calls for it
To die for the cause

Do you have the nerve
To be so goddamn impossible
To crown yourself corporate cannibal
The lord of the bores

Do you have the nerve
Do you have the drive
To always be the first
You might come out alive

If you have the nerve
And if you have the urge
To trample all the rest
You might survive the purge

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from Cement, released December 12, 2017

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