Name: Stuck on Payroll
Duration: P00H03M57S
Description: Stuck on Payroll taps into the daydream of the working class hero who's yearning for something more. The blissful guitars ring out as the character imagines what it must be like to travel the open road

Stuck on Payroll

by The Isolated Brigade

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Stuck on Payroll taps into the daydream of the working class hero who's yearning for something more. The blissful guitars ring out as the character imagines what it must be like to travel the open road

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Verse 1:
Stuck on payroll
Working each and every night
Give it 68 more months or so before my second flight
Take a picture
Cause this moment cannot last
Try to see what there'll be left of me before my time has passed

Chorus:
Hey, Can't you see me begging
Hands up in the air
Pray and break me free from this despair

Verse 2:
Ride the highway
Follow 80 further west
There's a place I hear with a better life, and me, I want what's best
Climb a mountain
Ramble on from coast to coast
Into the wild one must go being dragged from pillar to post

Chorus:
Hey, Can't you see me begging
Hands up in the air
Pray and break me free from this despair

Bridge:
Come, let go
Put your two weeks notice, Leave the Co.
So long from the insanity and further from obscenity
Scream hallelujah
We found our own Nirvana
Play for all you passerby's
And leave you with my last goodbye

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released December 18, 2020
Guitarist/Vocalist/Lyrist - Alex Ortiz
Drummer - Maximillian Stocchero
Bassist - Steven Legacki

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The Isolated Brigade Chicago, Illinois

The Isolated Brigade draws upon themes from their respective influences, advocating for individualism in a world of conformity, and choosing to face reality when confronted with fantasy.

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