Overtime

Verse 1

Acoustic guitar and voice

Alarm goes off at four-fifteenI lace my boots in the dark so she can sleepThermos in the cupholder, radio down lowAnother double shift, another dollar I can show

Pre-Chorus

I told myself it's all for herThe house, the ring, the college fundShe told me last night, holding my hand"Baby, we've already got enough"

Chorus

I've been working overtime on all the wrong thingsPunching in on Christmas, missing all the little thingsMissed my baby's first steps for a time-and-a-halfMissed my wife's slow dances for a check that don't lastBoss don't know my birthday, but the ones back home all doI've been working overtimeWhen I should've been working on you

Verse 2

My daddy worked the mill for thirty-one yearsRetired with a watch and a chair and a couple of beersHe said "Son, the only thing I'd do different, I swearI'd have come home early and just been standing there"

Pre-Chorus

And I heard him, but I didn't hearTill my little girl asked her mama"Does Daddy still live here?"

Chorus

I've been working overtime on all the wrong thingsPunching in on Christmas, missing all the little thingsMissed my baby's first steps for a time-and-a-halfMissed my wife's slow dances for a check that don't lastBoss don't know my birthday, but the ones back home all doI've been working overtimeWhen I should've been working on you

Bridge

Fiddle and steel, band pulls back

So I called in sick on a TuesdayTook the girls down to the lakeWe didn't catch a single fishBest day we ever made

Final Chorus

Full band, big singalong

I'm done working overtime on all the wrong thingsI'm clocking out for Christmas, I'm home for all the little thingsI'll hold my baby's hand for less than time-and-a-halfSlow dance in the kitchen for the rest of what I haveBoss can keep the extra hours, I know where I belongI'm working overtime nowOn the ones I love

Outro

Acoustic guitar, fading

Clocking outComing home