It’s Company Karaoke Night And I’m Ready To Perform “Slaughter Of The Soul”
We will reap as we have sown, reap as we have sown
Look at Jane up there singing along to Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’. She’s doing pretty good. Definitely a bit off-key, but pretty good nonetheless. And everyone is really cheering her on. Even our stiff supervisor over there is clapping. I’d be a bit worried to follow her if I weren’t going to be performing At the Gates’ classic 90’s hit, Slaughter of the Soul.
I’m totally going to knock everyone’s socks off with its evocative opening lines:
“Go!
Never again
On your force-fed illusions to choke
You feed off my pain
Feed off my life”
HR was very clear when they made us all sign up for this team-building event that whoever selected the song that “best captures the inherent challenges and unique rewards of collaborative team work” would win a free drink ticket. It’s kind of ironic that a night supposedly about team-building is focused on an activity of solo performances, but that’s HR for you.
Just business as usual, I guess, as Slaughter of the Soul’s insightful refrain explains:
“Always the same
My tired eyes have seen enough
Of all your lies”
