Factory Lyrics by Stan Ridgway

Factory Lyrics

    Now, i know i had somethin' to say
    But the problem is, to say somethin'
    Uh, you've got to say it
    And i still don't remember a thing
    Since the funny gas come out of that pipe next to me
    I guess they didn't okay it
    Now i remember¨c¨cdid i tell ya?¨c¨ccut my thumb off
    At the knuckle on a broken band saw
    Didn't see the belt buckle or the blade slip
    And i remember when the doctor did it up with a stitch
    Funny thing¨c¨cstill got a scratch that i can't itch
    Where my thumb was

    Well, i've brought the same piece of chicken in a bag
    To work every day for the last twenty years or so
    And i really don't mind, work assembly line
    Got an intercom blastin' the news and the latest on the baseball scores
    Come around every friday, well, i get a paycheck
    Take the same road home that i come to work on¨c¨check
    It's a living


    Chorus:
    And i've got another factory back home
    I've got a barbecue, pink mustang, fenders chrome
    And at nine o'clock i sit there in my chair
    And i don't know why i lose my hair
    And then i go to...
    And then i go to...
    And then i go to sleep



    Well, i like to know what i'm doin' when i do it
    And i do what i'm doin' 'cause i don't know what to do
    When i'm not doin' it
    Sometimes i remember as a boy my father told me
    I could grow up to be anything i wanted
    Anything
    And every day at lunch i still look for my lost
    Digit¨c¨cstill got that funny scratch
    So maybe when i find it i can itch it
    And i got a little rubber pool in the backyard
    For the kids to wade in
    And i? i? i... i, i, i.


    Chorus:
    I've got another factory back home
    I got a little backyard, pink mustang, fenders chrome
    At nine o'clock i'm in my chair sat down
    Just lately, when my wife talks back to me i slap 'er around
    And then i go to...
    And then i go to...
    And then i go to sleep



    Whoah-oh-oh-oh! until fade

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