Lateral Climb - Robben Ford, DR Big Band

The sun heats up another working day

Coffee, tea, and I’m on my way

Try to beat the traffic

And maybe yesterdays time

Try to make a little progress

In what’s lookin' like a lateral climb

Put behind me, my spendthrift ways

And I’ve made more money than I did in those days

Used to carry a debt of twenty grand

(bankin kind?)

And I’ve still got nothin'

It’s lookin like a lateral climb

Our leader’s addicted

To oil and war

Says it’s freedom that we’re fightin' for

Applause, applause

For bald face white collar crime

And they leave you stranded

Believin' in a lateral climb

The sun heats up another working day

Coffee, tea, and I’m on my way

What once was a dollar

Is lookin' more like a dime

Heads up people

It’s nothin' but a lateral climb

A lateral climb