Now that your picture´s in the paper being rhythmically admired
and you can have anyone that you have ever desired,
all you gotta tell me now is why, why, why, why.
Welcome to the workin´ week.
Oh I know it don´t thrill you, I hope it don´t kill you.
Welcome to the workin´ week.
You gotta do it till you´re through it so you better get to it.

All of your family had to kill to survive,
and they´re still waitin´ for their big day to arrive.
But if they knew how I felt they´d bury me alive.

Welcome to the workin´ week.
Oh I know it don´t thrill you, I hope it don´t kill you.
Welcome to the workin´ week.
You gotta do it till you´re through it so you better get to it.

I hear you sayin´, "Hey, the city´s all right
when you only read about it in books.
Spend all your money gettin´ so convinced
that you never even bother to look.
Sometimes I wonder if we´re livin´ in the same land,
Why d´you wanna be my friend when I feel like a juggler
running out of hands?

Welcome to the workin´ week, oh, welcome to the working week.