Originally performed by the Turtlenecks, the band Flansburgh was in before he teamed up with Linnell. Flans has occasionally (jokingly) attributed this song to his father, Earl Flansburgh.
I gotta get a job, got to get some pay. My son's gotta go to art school."
Flans did go to art school (the Pratt Institute), but I doubt his father, being a successful architect, was worried about getting a job or pay at the time.