Tommy Turnbolt

from Blue Shirts by The Golden Bubbles

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Tommy, oh Turnbolt
he's been working now for two years
at the local Big Buy
He's making minimum wage
He looks too old for his age
They don't hire winners at the A/V store
And every day he hates more than before

So he stands near the big TVs and whispers this prayer:

"God, my shift manager
Whoever's out there listening
If you could just please, please
come down and help me
I can't go on living this way"

That was a big mistake
He didn't even know
What he had set in place
And the company knows that it can trade your soul,
Yeah who needs a metaphysical realm
You're bussing your cheap ass downtown
Just to take the 117 out to your place

Tommy Turnbolt
Lives with his brother
In a duplex apartment
French fry carpet
Things are soon gonna change
Buckle up young man

Tommy Turnbolt
You could do wonders
But you're down in the basement
Work ethic face it
Like a 2 inch slug
It's time to rocketship bud

Tommy Turnbolt
Earth has been waiting
for a man of your greatness
to take us new places
not just sell us a phone
but to give us a home

Tommy Turnbolt
Ground floor associate
can you sense all the power,
rich regal honor,
you're a company man!
And you'll be richer than Pan

"As the store closed, all the blue shirts went home, except for Tommy, who fell asleep beneath a wide-screen Magnavox"

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from Blue Shirts, released November 26, 2021

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The Golden Bubbles Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Golden Bubbles are a Minnesota-based piano-rock band fronted by two brothers (Christopher and Leo Vondracek). Named for a locally famous dance hall in their hometown of Wells, MN, the band has released two full-length albums (2012's Seventy-Two and 2009's A Good Time Had By All) and in Nov. 2021 released the first of their Blue Shirts records, a 4-part concept album. ... more

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