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