Lyric discussion by albanyankee 

Well, this song sums up working life pretty perfectly. Spend all day making money for the shareholders, get your tiny little cut that they call a wage or salary, then go piss it away on drink at the weekend so that you can stay just sane enough to hang in there for a brand new week of the same. I'd never been able to decipher the line about 'taking my baby to sophistication' and needing to work hard because 'I've seen the price.' Now that I have I think it's brilliant.

Probably about being able to give your girl all the material possessions she wants but you can't because they're too expensive for that insignificant cut of the shareholders money they call a salary

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