Lyrics Dar Williams

Dar Williams

Buzzer

Sitting with a number eight platter at the restaurant

Four twenty nine for almost anything I want

Add it up it's cheaper than the stuff I make myself

I get by, I never needed anybody's help

And I tore out an ad and they told me that I

Would press the buzzer

Would press the buzzer

At the graduate lab they were doing some tests

I pressed the buzzer

Would press the buzzer

Ride a circle off the highway

Spiral into the driveway

In the maze of all prefabs

They'll be waiting at the lab

I don't know how everybody makes it through the daily drill

Paint the nails, walk a dog, pay every bill

I'm feeling sorry for this guy that I pressed to shock

He gets the answers wrong I have to up the watts

And he begged me to stop but they told me to go

I pressed the buzzer

I pressed the buzzer

So get out of my head just give me my line

I pressed the buzzer

I pressed the buzzer

Ride a circle off the highway

Spiral into the driveway

In the maze of all prefabs

They'll be waiting at the lab

They called me back to the lab to discuss the test

I put my earrings on found my heels wore a dress

Right away I knew it was like I failed a quiz

The man said do you know what a fascist is

I said yeah it's when you do things you're not proud of

But you're scraping by taking orders from above

I get it now I'm the face I'm the cause of war

We don't have to blame white coated men anymore

When I knew it was wrong I played it just like a game

I pressed the buzzer

I pressed the buzzer

Here's your seventy bucks now everything's changed

I pressed the buzzer

I pressed the buzzer

But tell me where are your stocks would you do this again

I pressed the buzzer

And tell me who made your clothes was it children or men

I pressed the buzzer

Ride a circle off the highway

Spiral into the driveway

In the maze of all prefabs

They'll be waiting at the lab