Nuts and Bolts - Baba Brinkman

Number crunching, staring at a spreadsheet

Data entry, coffee break, that’ll tempt me

Diuretic, hit the bathroom, bladder empty

Then it’s back to my back-shattering seat

All work, no play, got bent vertebrae

From sittin' strapped in one place for thirty days

Like a penguin — «quack» — not like a bird of prey

We’ll be right back, after this commercial break

Entrepreneur’s fate, gotta pay the bills

Haven’t smoked weed in years, life is way too real

Another admin day, what a waste of skills

But I can’t sit still, I’m afraid to chill

Pushin' this cart up hill, I’m Blade Running

Can’t stay in one place, it’ll get away from me

I might coast for ten minutes, maybe twenty

But gravity brings me back, gotta make money

These are the fruits of my labours produced

In the slavin' away I do day by day

These are the moves that I make and the rules

That I play by, when I ply my trade

The only videos I make are instructional

Peace to Shad K, I’m mad functional

That’s the nature of industry, nuts and bolts

Bullshit committees and tax deductibles

I’m like «fuck your rules» whose rules anyway?

You gotta be a masochist to get an MBA

You gotta be in love with boredom, and pain

Ain’t no original ideas in a pencil case

What a waste of talent, fuck a bank balance

I mean, it’s great, but why chase it if it ain’t a challenge?

Find the space to engage your native passions

In every imaginable way — you gotta make it happen

And when it ends in crushing disappointment

Use that to advance by making different choices

Or else by listening to different voices

Failure is all but assured, you gotta pick your poison

These are the fruits of my labours produced

In the slavin' away I do day by day

These are the moves that I make and the rules

That I play by, when I ply my trade

This isn’t pessimistic, it’s just descriptive

There’s lots of ways to let the debt collectors getchya

And not so many paths to a successful business

There’s no certain formula to get the riches

The visionary perspective isn’t very effective

When it comes to calculating the yearly interest

On all the various debts you’re carrying from initiatives

That failed to achieve their revolutionary objectives

This is serious business, you gotta dot your i’s

You gotta cross your t’s and watch your bottom line

Keep your money on your mind, and stay on your grind

You gotta crawl sometimes before your star can rise

Just try to fail constructively, trust me

Some days you’re gonna hate your company

The vision doesn’t take you to a place of luxury

It just sustains you while you face the daily drudgery

These are the fruits of my labours produced

In the slavin' away I do day by day

These are the moves that I make and the rules

That I play by, when I ply my trade