Weekends are short.

They can be especially painful when you consider the piles of tasks waiting for you to deal with at work the next day.

Malaysian YouTuber duo Bingyen (Zheng Bing Yen) and Z-Horng (Chen Zhi Hong) understand this.

So passionate were they about these feelings of dread that they created a song parody titled "A Little Happiness — Unlucky at work version", which is sung to the tune of the similarly-titled theme song by Hebe Tian (of S.H.E. fame) to the wildly popular coming-of-age Taiwanese movie "Our Times".

Instead of singing about young love though, this peculiar parody pays tribute to the laments of the working class, dealing with the startling reality of work culture and dealing with having no time nor energy for anything else.

Lyrics

Here are the roughly translated lyrics to the song, so you can too belt out your frustrations with work:

I saw the green traffic light turn on and off

But I'm going to be late for work soon

Why is there no gap within the traffic

For my car to move forward?

I don't have a fixed time where I can leave work

I would require a lot of courage to knock off from work on time

Why is none of my colleagues packing up to go?

Oh, our boss is still down the hall.

Perhaps it's because we're busy dealing with having to network and socialise

Busy dealing with being suddenly arrowed

It's understandable that people run away and escape

Things that are not our problem, we begin to subtly taichi* it away

Now we know society is difficult to deal with

Now we know that we're getting in touch with reality

Our chants of wanting to change the world in the past

Have become such that we've changed ourselves

We've put on layers of masks, pretending that we're happy

When it is time for our holidays, we feel so lucky,

But I've lost my energy to accompany you through a night out

But one day

I hope I can sleep until I wake up naturally

My phone won't keep ringing

I would thank God

My company's environment is extremely fake

My colleagues are bootlicking their superiors

To beg for a raise, who's going to give me that courage

So that I can support myself and survive?

Perhaps it's because we're busy dealing with having to network and socialise

Busy dealing with being suddenly arrowed

We're being attacked every time

Who's the one causing trouble in the office, this is too despicable!

Now we know society is difficult to deal with

Now we know that we're getting in touch with reality

Our chants of wanting to change the world in the past

Have become such that we've changed ourselves

We've put on layers of masks, pretending that we're happy

When it is time for our holiday,  I feel so lucky,

But I've lost my energy to accompany you through a night out

But one day

I hope I can sleep until I wake up naturally

My phone won't keep ringing

Ring, ring

I really am unlucky

*taichi = to push blame, responsibility onto others

We suppose many an office worker will be singing this before work on Monday — in front of their bosses, even.

Top image via Bingyen 郑斌彦's  Facebook post