Story Behind The Song

I used to tell my kids this exact line (hook) and they would look at me like what the heck are you talkin' about old man? Then when I bacame a school teacher, I used to tell my teenage and adolescent students the same thing. After I had retired from playing and writing music, I realized I couldn't keep telling these kids this w/o doing it myself. I am now writing and playing full time again and this song is the product of that process.

Song Description

Can you find what you are supposed to do with your life? And once you know what that is, can you pursue it to the natural end of its pursuit?

Lyrics

JOB IN LIFE (c) 2005

GRACE ATTRACTED MEN WHO WEREN?T REALLY MEN
SHE ENJOYED THE BOYS WHO ENJOYED THE CHASE AGAIN AND AGAIN
INSIDE GRACE CONSTANTLY FELT A QUIET DES-PERA-A-TION
YET TO ALL SHE HAD KNOWN SHE?D ONLY SHOWN POLITE DETERMINA-ATION

ANYONE ELSE MIGHT HAVE BEEN TOO REPULSED
TO ADMIT WHAT SHE NEEDED FROM THEM
BUT WAS BETTER THEY THOUGHT THAT?S WHAT SHE STILL WANTS THAN TO KNOW SHE STILL CRAVED HIM

GRACE RAN AWAY WHEN THE PRESSURE OF MARRIAGE CAME FROM EV?RYWHERE BUT HIM
AT THE TIME SHE WAS ONLY NINETEEN
SHE COULDN?T MAKE THE COMMITMENT

Chorus
||: HER JOB IN LIFE IS TO GO DO WHAT HER JOB IN HER LIFE IS :||

SINCE SHE KNEW IT BUT SHE DIDN?T DO IT
THEN SHE HAS TO GO BACK TO GO THRU IT --
THRU IT ONE MORE TIME.

FRANKIE NEVER TOLD ANYONE WHAT HE REALLY WANTED TO DO
BCUZ THE WORLD HE LIVED IN WOULD NOT ALLOW HIM TO
HIS FATHER OWNED THE RESTAURANT HIS MOTHER MADE THE SAUCE
HIS DAD WOULD STERNLY DISCIPLINE BUT THE KIDS KNEW MOM WAS BOSS

HE LOVED TO FEEL THEIR LOVE BUT NEVER TRUSTED THEIR TRUST
HE WONDERED IF HE?D BE ALLOWED TO FEED HIS WANDERLUST

SO FRANKIE LEARNED THE FAMILY BIZ BCUZ HE COULD NOT CHOOSE
HE WOULD WAIT TIL THE TIME WAS RIGHT BUT OPPORTUNITIES WERE FEW

Chorus
||: HER JOB IN LIFE IS TO GO DO WHAT HER JOB IN HER LIFE IS :||

SINCE SHE KNEW IT BUT SHE DIDN?T DO IT
THEN SHE HAS TO GO BACK TO GO THRU IT --
THRU IT ONE MORE TIME.