After 17 years, you're getting out of school and you're feeling pretty cool
Go downtown looking for a job and you just got robbed
Sign up as a temp and they farm you out
You really don't know what that life is all about
Go up to the 25th floor, sign some forms
They take you down a dark hall, say it's time to choose a cube

At the end of the darkest hall
Where no sunlight comes at all
You've got a cube, yeah it's gray and blue

Send you to the basement to mop up the mess
Just wasting time, but they never will confess
They're only using big words trying to impress
But you're making your bacon and you can't wait for your first check
Then they're taking half your money and give it to the man
Where it goes, you do not understand

At the end of the darkest hall
Where no sunlight comes at all
You've got a cube, yeah it's gray and blue

There are so many people that barely survive
Working their lives nine to five
Think that you should do the same
But they don't really know any other game
You've got one friend that speaks the truth
Yeah, that's probably why he lost a tooth
Going to the bar after work to have a drink
Telling everybody what you really do think

At the end of the darkest hall
Where no sunlight comes at all
You've got a cube, yeah it's gray and blue
Tear down the cubes, tear 'em down
Let the sunlight through
Let's tear down the cubes, tear 'em down
Tear down gray and blue
Tear down the cubes, tear 'em down
Let the sunlight through