The System Engineers' Anthem

The system stands here at our hands and the schedule's really tight Though overtime can be sublime betcha we'll be here all night The sell-off date is three weeks late and the hardware is on drugs The interface has been debased and the software's full of bugs CHORUS: We're the system engineers, me lads, the system engineers We've lost our brains and we're half insane We're the system engineers The program runs 'til the morning sun fades into the pale moonlight Then it bombs again at ten PM and fills our hearts with fright Both push and pop cause program stop, it's hopeless, we confess >From Turbo C to assembly this software is a mess CHORUS The floppies whirred, a sound was heard that dropped us to the floor We crashed the heads and the mylar shreds came out the disk drive door A power surge just had the urge to kick the system hard That one quick blip from the power strip took out our graphics card CHORUS The file space has been erased and the BIOS has been trashed Our MS-DOS is a total loss and the hard drive heads have crashed The CPU is smoking too, and the coprocessor's died We've lost all track of the memory stack and the motherboard is fried CHORUS I need a bheer, why are we here, enslaved to our paychecks We waste our time, trying to design our code to worthless specs The hardware smokes and the system chokes each time we try to edit Even if it works, we'll feel like jerks, 'cause our boss will get the credit CHORUS