# Don’t Go Far | Unknower

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Song

# Don’t Go Far

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From [Ghost Towns](https://unknowermusic.com/releases/ghost-towns) · Track 3 · 2026

A Ghost Towns song written on the day the artist was laid off from a corporate software development job.

2:44releasedConfidence: mixed

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[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/track/24KOLjvNBd9DYzWq0zjUWk)[Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/song/dont-go-far/6831576938)[Bandcamp](https://unknower.bandcamp.com/track/dont-go-far)

Lyrics · artist-supplied

There’s some new hire with the same name as mine,  
Always logs his hours against my time  
But it’s probably fine

Heard that you’re giving him all of my assignments,  
That he’s doing just fine,  
But man that guy ain’t right

I swear I’ve seen him on a late-night infomercial running like 3 to 5  
He’s always trying to get me to sell my soul like

“Ooh! Who is it that you’d like to lend your ghost to?  
Just think of all the worthless work we’ll have for you!  
Get started, we’ll punch in your time card!  
And there’s lots of paperwork to do so don’t go far!”

So I clocked him out but they took my key,  
So the office ghosts keep haunting me.  
If they call me back, you can say I’m gone —  
There’s no line item for moving on.

“Ooh! Who is it that you’d like to lend your ghost to?  
Just think of all the worthless work we’ll have for you!  
Get started, we’ll punch in your time card!  
And there’s lots of paperwork to do so don’t go far!”

So next time you’re thinking about impressing that guy by co-signing his lines when I’m nearby  
You might want to think twice, and consider what your reputation’s gonna look like  
I guess now little buddy’s trying to run around the city and round up some money  
He said these days times have been a little tough cause everybody keeps looking at him funny

Working interpretation · analysis

> **Interpretation note:** This is analysis of the supplied lyrics, not an authoritative statement of authorial intent. The writer’s note below is the artist’s own account of when the song was written.

The new hire shares the narrator’s name, takes his assignments, and clocks hours against his time, making replacement feel like a theft of identity as well as work. The sales pitch to “lend your ghost” and the office ghosts suggest a workplace that still claims a person after taking their key. “There’s no line item for moving on” pushes back against that logic. The final lines turn to the double’s reputation and difficulties, but leave open exactly what kind of figure he is.

Themes

work, replacement, identity, ghosts

Process

**Writer’s Notes (artist-supplied):**

I wrote this song the same day I got laid off from my corporate software development job

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