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All The While

from Play Date by John Mac and the Moraggots

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All The While
There’s Amelie with her five, fine kids,
And the neighbor’s boy she watches afterschool.
Finds herself in a big, box store, short on cash,
Knowing though her family needs the food.

So she puts a can in each coat pocket,
Of her children gathered ‘round,
Hopes that it’s Him, above her head,
That’s looking down.

Someone’s dad who hates the thought,
Of showing up without something on Christmas Eve,
Walks the breadth and length of Aisle Ten, sees a socket set,
It’s just what his nephew needs.

So he slips it under his old down jacket,
And then he takes his leave,
Thinking nothing’s wrong,
If there’s no one there to see.

All the while I sat there,
Watching each and every single furtive move.
They felt it too.
Cameras trained on each secret shopper,
My long arm reaching each thieving shoulder,
It’s true...

Young love must be rewarded,
Even though they both had lost their jobs.
She models the 18 karat gold necklace, he grins,
And the saleslady looks on.

“Distract her,” his love says as she hides the trinket.
It’s an early wedding gift.
Then blows him a kiss, heads out the door,
Before she’s missed.

All the while I sat there,
Watching each and every single furtive move.
They felt it too.
Cameras trained on each secret shopper,
My long arm reaching each thieving shoulder,
It’s true...

It’s near my shifts end and I’ve found,
That I’ve lost the will to care,
‘bout a job that hardly pays the cost in gas,
Of getting from home to here.

So at closing time, when there’s no one here,
I steal myself a can of beer, and drink,
While I contemplate,
A change in career.

All the while I sat there,
Watching each and every single furtive move.
They felt it too.
Cameras trained on each secret shopper,
My long arm reaching each thieving shoulder,
It’s true...

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from Play Date, track released May 31, 2009

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