What the song is about
The singer walks us through an ordinary day, the
daily grind. In the morning he wakes up, drinks coffee, showers, gets dressed and eats breakfast. Then he goes to work, takes a lunch break and comes home. In the evening he relaxes, reads and finally goes to bed. The chorus says that every day follows the same routine,
from morning to night.
Useful words and expressions
Morning routine- wake up / get out of bed: stop sleeping / leave your bed
- take a shower, wash my face, brush my teeth, comb my hair
- get dressed: put on your clothes
- have breakfast / lunch / dinner: eat a meal (no the or a before the meal)
- toast and jam: a typical simple breakfast
Work and the day- commute (to work): travel between home and work
- start my shift: begin your working hours
- take a break: stop working for a short time
- pack my bag, lock the door, grab my keys (grab = take quickly)
- head (back) home: go home
Evening- stay up: not go to bed
- put on my pajamas, turn off the light, fall asleep
Idioms and fixed phrases- the daily grind: the boring, tiring routine of every day
- an early bird: a person who gets up early
- a night owl: a person who likes to stay awake late
- heavy as lead: very heavy (here: very tired eyes)
- keep the schedule tight: follow your plan with no wasted time
- tick-tock: the sound of a clock
Grammar
- Present simple for routines: The alarm rings, I get out of bed. We use it for things we do every day.
- Dropped subject: many lines start with the verb (Wash my face, Grab my keys). The I is left out to keep the rhythm, like a list. In a normal sentence, say I wash my face.
- Time expressions: at twelve o'clock, from morning to night.
- Informal future: What am I gonna wear? uses gonna = going to. It is fine in speech, but write going to.
- Infinitive of purpose: Check my watch to see..., no time to lag.
Careful: bent for the rhyme
- Some folks stay up, they are a night owl: folks is plural, so the correct form is they are night owls. The singular is only there to rhyme with howl.
- Turn on the power (rhymes with shower): in a bathroom we usually say turn on the light or turn on the water.
- Check my watch to see where I am: here it means where I am in my schedule. Normally we say to see what time it is.
- No time to lag: the usual phrase is no time to waste.
- Listening to the morning, not a single word is poetic. It means the morning is quiet.
