Calling Out - PEZ, Paul Dempsey

Behind the technologists, the tradesmen and the apprentices

Ray and the young men like him manning 15,000 factories

Into this life we’re thrown

Just as if outta nowhere, and from that instant

Begin to be program', to decode eve—

Rything we see in a particular way

Now some have the nerve to venture off into the unknown

Some don’t, they’re content to watch from the front row

Either way it’s still a game that can be cut-throat

You don’t wanna be on the wrong end of all the gun smoke

But your destiny waits

So there’s really no need for precaution, of course

We are cautious, it’s all we know

Just one false move and it’s all she wrote, that’s what they tell us

So we all take aim to stake claim

And if you get there just pray you maintain

Long enough, not to suffer and

No longer have to sing a song for your supper

Let’s pray

How we gonna keep on sufferin'

And fallin' on our knees for nothin'?

I’m starting to believe in somethin'

It’s kinda hard to hear it but it’s callin' out

Okay

Because I look inside, find this insight

Guessin' in this life, people would think I

Must know really what mine’s for

But the truth I’m not quite sure

All I’m doin' is tryna follow my heart

Even though that my head’s sayin', 'what if I can’t?'

What if my path is already planned out

I already see how the story will pan out

It’s not gonna be, well shit still I’m not gonna stop

When a job is the only other option I got

I’m not sayin' that it’s wrong 'cause it’s not

But if you’re workin' and it doesn’t make you happy

Then what is the point?

I mean really?

Either you can take a shot or try to merely make do

When you see that that’s the only other move

Then there really isn’t anything to lose, choose

How we gonna keep on sufferin'

And fallin' on our knees for nothin'?

I’m starting to believe in somethin'

It’s kinda hard to hear it but it’s callin' out

Hey that’s the way everything goes

Some get what they want, the rest never get close

That’s why they say if you ever get chosen

You made it 'cause anything goes

That’s why we find ourself in a time where

People deny what’s really inside them, frightened

Mighta feared that the outcome is doubtful

Not knowin' in itself that’s the downfall, it’s weird right

See we think we’ll never make an impact

Since a young age we’ve been trained to think that

That’s the only reason we’re beaten

They know they can feed us this shit and we’ll believe it, either

You can struggle through life or take your story

And then turn it into something you like it’s all up in your mind

And in mine man, I’m leavin' on a plane

So if you’re comin' there too well then I’ll see you on the way

Let’s go

How we gonna keep on sufferin'

And fallin' on our knees for nothin'?

I’m starting to believe in somethin'

It’s kinda hard to hear it but it’s callin' out

How we gonna keep on sufferin'

And fallin' on our knees for nothin'?

I’m starting to believe in somethin'

It’s kinda hard to hear it but it’s callin' out

It’s callin'

It’s callin'

It’s callin' out

It’s callin' out

It’s callin' out

It’s callin'

It’s callin' out

It’s callin' out

Judy is working in one of the stores until she marries

But thousands more spend their working lives serving

The needs of a million shoppers