Days are long but the minds are strong
In the factory
Heads are down and all the people frown
In the factory
I’m so down I put my head around every noose I see
Days are long but the minds are strong
In the factory
Eyes are mean but the walls are clean
In the factory
Patience now they’re gonna string you out
In the factory
I’m so tired I never go outside every night I sleep
Days are long but the minds are gone
In the factory
Early in the morning factory whistle blows,
Man rises from bed and puts on his clothes,
Man takes his lunch, walks out in the morning light,
It’s the working, the working, just the working life.
Through the mansions of fear, through the mansions of pain,
I see my daddy walking through them factory gates in the rain,
Factory takes his hearing, factory gives him life,
The working, the working, just the working life.
End of the day, factory whistle cries,
Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes.
And you just better believe, boy, somebody’s gonna get hurt tonight,
It’s the working, the working, just the working life.
In passage of time
To a cigarette burn
In the book that i read
To the sentence i learn
Up and down
Going round
Going round ‘till we drown again
I’m gonna set myself up
I’m gonna up to the top
Up to the top
To the top
I’m going down to the ground
Going round
Till we drown
Going round till we drown again
Factory
Imitation of life
Factory
We all go out to lunch
A certain raion we know
Has left us unaware
Someone else has taken leave
Someone who did care
Elevators just don’t crash
The answer lies within
Elevators elevators
Answer lies within
To the glittering prize
To the fool in the sky
I’ve got a jewel in my eye
I’m going up
Coming down
Going round
Till we drown
Going round till we drown again
To the centre of the man
Because he had a plan
He had a plan to escape
But now we’ve got it on tape
Going up
Coming down
Going around
Going round till we drown again
Factory
Imitation of life
Factory
We all go out to lunch
A certain raion we know
Has left us unaware
Someone else has taken leave
Someone who did care
Elevators just don’t crash
The answer lies within
Elevators elevators
Answer lies within
Factory
Going out to lunch
Factory
Going out to lunch
Lyrics : j kerr music : simple minds (c) emi publishing ltd reproduced without permission
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
Days are long but the minds are strong
In the factory
Heads are down and all the people frown
In the factory
I’m so down I put my head around every noose I see
Days are long but the minds are strong
In the factory
Eyes are mean but the walls are clean
In the factory
Patience now they’re gonna string you out
In the factory
I’m so tired I never go outside every night I sleep
Days are long but the minds are gone
In the factory
