Call Centre Blues

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(Verse 1)
Twenty ten, Cape Breton, stuck in a chair,
Headset on, fake smile, pretending to care.
Calls come in, complaints on repeat,
Another shift wasted, glued to this seat.
(Chorus)
Call center blues, it’s a game you can’t win,
Fleas in the carpet, the walls closing in.
Twenty percent interest, lies we must sell,
This dirty old building’s a corner of hell.
(Verse 2)
Lines being crushed on a bathroom sink,
Night shift’s a party, too wired to think.
Managers screaming, young girls in tears,
Selling broken dreams to drown out the fear.
(Chorus)
Call center blues, it’s a game you can’t win,
Fleas in the carpet, the walls closing in.
Twenty percent interest, lies we must sell,
This dirty old building’s a corner of hell.
(Verse 3)
Paycheck to paycheck, no end in sight,
Dreams fade away under buzzing fluorescent light.
The carpet’s alive, the air’s filled with shame,
It’s just a paycheck, no face, just a name.
(Chorus)
Call center blues, it’s a game you can’t win,
Fleas in the carpet, the walls closing in.
Twenty percent interest, lies we must sell,
This dirty old building’s a corner of hell.
(Bridge)
He died in his chair, slumped over his desk,
Covered with a blanket, just another mess.
The paramedics came, but we stayed in our lane,
“Keep taking those calls,” like nothing had changed.
A dead man in the cubicle, the air thick with dread,
But the calls kept on coming, though one of us was dead.
(Verse 4)
The smell of piss and B.O. fills the air,
People broken and beaten, nobody cares.
Calls from the States, “You’re stealing our jobs!”
While we scrape by, still treated like slobs.
(Chorus)
Call center blues, it’s a game you can’t win,
Fleas in the carpet, the walls closing in.
Twenty percent interest, lies we must sell,
This dirty old building’s a corner of hell.
(Outro)
Cape Breton in the twenty tens, this is what we knew,
Trapped in these walls, but the spirit fought through.
Call center blues, it’s all in the past,
But the scars of that grind will forever last.

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[@FlammableGold522]

I got interested this because I have worked in call center when I was younger. But what a tragic story is in this song 😢

[@TheUncleWhoTried]

@FlammableGold522 yeah they just don't care. I worked in a couple of them between 2005 and 2016. I didn't name the places. Don't want to get sued even though these are all true stories. I wasn't there for the guy having a heart attack at his desk though. Heard that from friends.