Linux Administrator - Intellectual

VERSE 1:

Oh, Adam's got a new script

He knows you've got work to do

Filling up your back queue

He knows there's a ticket in; it's true, dude

But he won't give you access

He'd rather see you squirm and fight—that's right

Pulling out your hairs, staying up all night

Yeah, he really doesn't care, full of spite; it's not tight

Locking things down, making sure you can't share

Wonder if he's hurt somewhere deeper in there?

Maybe the power he gets from control

Is somehow connected to his soul? I don't know

Came to the interview, tiny green tie

I don't know why—such a strange guy

Saw the sign on his door, it explained much more

CHORUS:

He's the Linux Administrator

He's got all the power

He only doles it out if he's in the right mood

He's the Linux Administrator

It's more than just his personality;

He's really quite rude

VERSE 2:

Tell me why the ticket's been queued for so long?

I tell him this is crazy, I tell him it's wrong

He just sits and blindly stares

Runs another script and says he doesn't care

I head down to management

Really didn't want it to come to this

I escalate it from the queue;

Now it's not a request—it's something he must do

Then I finally get access; it feels so cool

Then I notice something kind of odd about the fool

His head starts spinning, he begins to melt

Is this the Wizard of Oz? What's he doing to himself?

I get it: he finally relinquished the power

It's my finest hour; he showered in remorse

Slowly faded away as I watched the penguin poster turn gray

CHORUS:

He's the Linux Administrator

He's got all the power

He only doles it out if he's in the right mood

He's the Linux Administrator

It's more than just his personality;

He's really quite rude

OUTRO

Check the faded penguin poster on the wall

Linux users are like, they're also control freaks. They like to have everything run through scripts that they can automate everything with and they really do not like GUIs at all. Everything has to be done at the command line, and they want full control over everything that they do. Just like the administrators