The Office Song (2004 demo) Twelve Months of OK Go July

July s song is called The Office Song, and was demoed in 2004. Listen to the lyrics and guess why we picked it for July. Here s what Damian remembers about it: I wrote The Office Song in late July of whatever year that was. I was living in Chicago, with my dog Ella, in a downtrodden part of the city where cheap fireworks were considered a high form of entertainment. The fireworks were illegal in Chicago, but could be gotten less than an hour away in Indiana, so once the glut of July 4th supplies made it to the city, we d have little bursts of explosions in the neighborhood every 15 minutes or so until well into September. Poor Ella was terrified of the sound, so my apartment had a constant air of panic as she slunk into closets or under beds, and the celebrations started sounding the opposite of joyous to me like people trying to punish themselves into being happy. That was inspiration for the line the Independence Day Parade s been going on for half a month