Gaps in My Resume

If you give me this job, sir, I won't disappoint
Your face tells me you get right to the point
Your face tells me you read my resume
You got questions, I can explain

I got out of college, studied liberal arts
I went straight to work at a coffee cart
I went straight to work until I got fired
The manager there was always wired

OK here it is straight: I got a few gaps in my resume
Hey, hey what can I say? I got a few gaps in my resume

Got my first real job at venture dot-com
But I got the pink slip when the market went down
I got the pink slip and I moved back home
I thought about grad school, feared the loan

So I volunteered registering citizens to vote
For friendly folks and the right to toke
For friendly folks living in the hills
My pay was green but it wasn't dollar bills

Hey, hey what can I say? I got a few gaps in my resume
OK here it is straight: I got a few gaps in my resume

Then I worked construction, I hurt my back
I took worker's comp. and the state took it back
I took worker's comp. and I took another job
The state calls a double dip third-degree fraud

Then I worked in a bank saying no to the poor
But I got let go when I let one in the door
I got let go trying to help a brother out
That's the reason for my loan default

Hey, hey what can I say? I got a few gaps in my resume
OK here it is straight: I got a few gaps in my resume

Being unemployed I was high and dry
And you don't wanna know the things I did to get by
You don't wanna know the things I did to get paid
It involved costumes and facial paint

Then I guy I went to school with hacked a fund
He owed me money and he gave me some
He owed me money and he hooked me up
With a couple job leads and a thousand bucks

OK here it is straight: I got a few gaps in my resume
Hey, hey what can I say? I got a few gaps in my resume

I want to get my life back on the right track
I was so awful glad when you called me back
I was so awful glad to meet face to face
To explain to you the gaps in my resume