{"id":921,"date":"2015-08-16T23:06:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T04:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kaybuena.com\/blog\/?p=921"},"modified":"2015-08-16T23:10:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T04:10:04","slug":"company-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kaybuena.com\/blog\/company-man\/","title":{"rendered":"COMPANY MAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kaybuena.com\/songs\/CompanyMan.mp3\">Get MP3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/kaybuena.com\/images\/99C12CAScrop.jpg\" alt=\"1999\" width=\"177\" height=\"131\" \/>He&#8217;s a company man, his days are part of someone else&#8217;s plan<br \/>\nYou gotta understand, that he&#8217;s a company man<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s a company man, give him some slack when you can<br \/>\nYou gotta understand, that he&#8217;s a company man<\/p>\n<p>The grind&#8217;s a grain of sand piled one on another<br \/>\nLook back on a mountain pulled together<br \/>\nBalanced before the earthquake takes it<br \/>\nThese separate days can make or break it<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a company man, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ripped apart, it&#8217;s nothing much<br \/>\nThe hidden system&#8217;s blind to the touch<br \/>\nMade from day to day by hand<br \/>\nEven his dreams have the company brand<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a company man, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He missed the morning glorys open again<br \/>\nIn a building with no windows, time has no refrain<br \/>\nSometimes I wish it&#8217;d stop<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s not lonely there, even on the top<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a company man, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Copyright 1984 <a href=\"mailto:KayBuena@KayBuena.com\">Caroline Abbitt Sauer<\/a><\/p>\n<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:19,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/kaybuena.com\\\/songs\\\/CompanyMan.mp3&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251101054720\\\/https:\\\/\\\/kaybuena.com\\\/songs\\\/CompanyMan.mp3&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-18 18:57:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-23 01:35:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-11-01 19:42:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-11-01T19:42:17+00:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get MP3 He&#8217;s a company man, his days are part of someone else&#8217;s plan You gotta understand, that he&#8217;s a company man He&#8217;s a company man, give him some slack when you can You gotta understand, that he&#8217;s a company man The grind&#8217;s a grain of sand piled one on another Look back on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R4qt-eR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35,"url":"https:\/\/blog.kaybuena.com\/blog\/im-getting-a-tad-sick-of-this-maudlin-kiddie-crapbring-back-the-snoop-dogg\/","url_meta":{"origin":921,"position":0},"title":"Bring Back the Snoop Dogg Picture; it&#039;s a total Winner, if I do say myself.","author":"Kay Buena","date":"April 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Song of the Day: \"Moon Rise \" Lyrics, Music,Vocal, Rhythm Guitar, Slide\/Country-Slack Key Guitar: Kay Buena (AKA) Caroline Abbitt Sauer:- Bass Guitar, Recording Engineer: Dr. Charles Sauer,(PHd.comp.sci.):- Drums: The Honerable Jerry Barnett. 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