Lyrics · Five Minutes on the Low Road
Leaderboard
At PharmaSpan
Tanya
Are you there,
do you dare
get up on the leaderboard?
Did you score,
get some more
points on the leaderboard?
Get your little piece of fame
when you learn to play the game.
Are we gonna see your name
Up on the leaderboard?
Steve
How's it going on project Alpha?
Tanya
It's going great! Project Beta?
Steve
We start clinical trials in two weeks
Tanya
Two… weeks?
Steve
You sound surprised.
Win the prize,
Advertise,
up there on the leaderboard
You are fast,
or you're last
up there on the leaderboard.
Pump it up and come on strong.
Victory it won't take long.
Winners get to bang the gong,
when you're up on the leaderboard!
Steve
Hey Tanya did you make coffee?
Tanya
It's your turn Steve.
Steve
Are you sure? …
OK! Be right back.
Tanya
Steve, you've always been a friend
But this will have to end
You will not stand in my way
I will be the one to ascend.
The corner office is calling me
with an enticing voice
The board of directors will have to see
I am the logical…
Steve (angry, waving cell phone)
What the heck is this?
Tanya
I guess they decided to go with my approach.
Steve
That keynote was mine.
Tanya
Take it up with the execs.
Steve
We're done.
Tanya
Fight the fight,
day and night,
remain on the leaderboard.
Stay awake,
never break,
the price of the leaderboard.
I don't mean to be unkind,
when you play you come to find
if you lose you're left behind
off of the leaderboard.
Steve
I see right
through your game
We are through
We are through
Oh we are through.
In this world our work is never done
This is why we run and run and run
At the top there's only room for one
up on the lea – der - board.