You wake and you dress,   Wash the dirt from underneath your fingernails   It's a system and it seldom ever fails   To kill these moments before you race to face the day      You sleep on the train, you get hypnotised by the morning rain   As the caffeine in your belly wears away   You're not sure what you're doing   But you do it all the same   You guessed, I'm impressed      It's all a mistake   And the clock keeps ticking away   Every moment that I waste   It's all a mistake      The sun came up with a grudge against the puddles in the yard   As we trudge with certainty towards the car   And look up in the mirror to see the wreckage that we are   The office awaits, and you never can afford to let it down   And the pressure in your head begins to mount   As we're caught out by the traffic on our way across the town      It's all a mistake   And these people keep chipping away at me   And I don't have what it takes   It's all a mistake.