Up every morning just to keep a job I gotta fight my way through the hustling mob Sounds of the city pounding in my brain While another day goes down the drain (yeah, yeah)
But it's a five o'clock world when the whistle blows No one owns a piece of my time And there's a five o'clock me inside my clothes Thinking that the world looks fine, yeah
oh-de-lay-ee-ee
Trading my time for the pay I get Living on money that I ain't made yet I've been going trying to make my way While I live for the end of the day (yeah, yeah)
Cuz its a five o'clock world when the whistle blows No one owns a piece of my time There's a long-haired girl who waits, I know To ease my troubled mind, yeah
oh-de-lay-ee-ee
In the shelter of her arms everythings ok When she talks then the world goes slipping away And I know the reason I can still go on When every other reason is gone, (yeah, yeah)
In my five o'clock world she waits for me Nothing else matters at all Cuz every time my baby smiles at me I know thats its all worthwhile, yeah