Released on April 5, 2008

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This one is for all of my programmers out there

All of the developers who push through the extra hours to meet the deadline

The security researchers who work the extra shifts on the pentest

Those that can't get away and have nothing to get away to

Signed the first line, it was just nine to five

Quickly realized it became nine to nine

Twenty-four-seven-three-sixty-five

A process that separated me from my life

Need to unplug but you're still online

And you've gotta pay the bills every month on time

Want all the hours? You can have them all, fine

This is my life, so make it all mine

It's a road to success, no shortcut for steps

Instead, it's just another long day ahead

But I've gotta do well, stand out, achieve

First person in, last one to leave

Time doesn't matter, nothing comes for free

Scattered, I'm climbing that ladder to succeeed

Factors that change, reacting with the speed

Capture that flag, I'm running with the lead

After the fact, they didn't get the message

Pushing new changes in 11th hour sessions

Eat in my cube, breathe in my cube

Log a full day, fall asleep in my cube

I'm a laborer, worker, nothing like royal

Please, my desk lamp burns midnight oil

Crush 11 hours and working 7 days

Scratching for promotions, scraping for a raise

Now you see what I'm talking about

Trust me, I feel for you. We've all been there

It's like, work is just more work

And there's no end to it

There's not even a break

Bus ride home, I'm just another commoner

Embraced every night by the glow of my monitors

Can't keep a pet like a house cat or lap dog

Only thing sitting on my couch is a laptop

No family around, no cousins or brothers

No girlfriends, no significant other

Alone all the time even when I'm not supposed to be

Alone in my apartment, shopping for groceries

Alone out in public so nobody notice me

Alone and closed out but I can talk about it openly

Tried to meet people, it's so much guesswork

Gym memberships, online social networks

Community service, or drinks with the team

The bars and the dance clubs just weren't my scene

Nothing feels right, I don't know what it means

So I'm back in the office in front of my screen

Signed the first line, it was just nine to five

Quickly realized it became nine to nine

Twenty-four-seven-three-sixty-five

A process that separated me from my life

Need to unplug but you're still online

And you've gotta pay the bills every month on time

Want all the hours? You can have them all, fine

This is my life, so make it all mine

Down to a science, the point I've almost mastered it

Such a vicious cycle, can you see the pattern yet

No free minutes when I'm always working overtime

No I go and try but my life is broke and polarized

Work more and more, it's less time to socialize

And that's just a gamble, so why try and roll the dice

Either in the office or by myself at home at night

Plus I stopped believing there's no reason keeping hope alive

Now you see there's never time face to face

Always spending hours writing queries for a database

Or code for a feature, something last-minute

Where does free time begin if work doesn't finish

Running out of time making hours want to stay

There's just 24 a day and I give them all away

This is just temporary, that's what they all say

Never gonna change, forever the same, always

Unplug, unplug, you just need to unplug

Unplug, unplug, all work and no play makes a dull boy

Unplug, unplug, we just need to unplug

Unplug, unplug, all work and no play makes a dull boy

Signed the first line, it was just nine to five

Quickly realized it became nine to nine

Twenty-four-seven-three-sixty-five

A process that separated me from my life

Need to unplug but you're still online

And you've gotta pay the bills every month on time

Want all the hours? You can have them all, fine

This is my life, so make it all mine

Signed the first line, it was just nine to five

Quickly realized it became nine to nine

Twenty-four-seven-three-sixty-five

A process that separated me from my life

Need to unplug but you're still online

And you've gotta pay the bills every month on time

Want all the hours? You can have them all, fine

This is my life, so make it all mine

Signed the first line, it was just nine to five

Quickly realized it became nine to nine

Twenty-four-seven-three-sixty-five

A process that separated me from my life

All work and no play makes a dull boy

Signed the first line, it was just nine to five

Quickly realized it became nine to nine

Twenty-four-seven-three-sixty-five

A process that separated me from my life

Need to unplug but you're still online

And you've gotta pay the bills every month on time