The Production Line

[00:16.90] Steel, iron, nuts and bolts
[00:18.86] Poor man's gold in rusted vaults
[00:20.89] Scrap, tin, wheels and gears
[00:22.97] Shift by shift and year by year
[00:25.19] Rod, beam, sheet and plate
[00:27.14] Ironclad, you sealed your fate
[00:29.20] All that shines shall fade in time
[00:31.41] Welded put the day you signed
[00:33.19] The production line
[00:34.22] You better do your best, forget about sunshine
[00:36.72] 'Cause you won't see it where you're going
[00:38.30] And the only thing you know is
[00:39.54] You won't get to have your lunch on time
[00:41.15] Or ever again, 'Cause every second you spend
[00:42.70] That isn't meeting an end that an executive penned
[00:44.62] Is another debt that you render that'll let them extend
[00:46.92] Upon the length of your tenure where you're ever condemned
[00:49.35] Well, would you look at that, life's coming thick and fast
[00:51.52] I run and zig and zag amid the tat, pick and pack, bric-a-brac
[00:53.96] Click and drag, mix and match, stick a stack in my sack
[00:55.90] 'Til it could fill a skip of scrap then bring it back quick as a flash
[00:58.19] We're scrappy and resilient, we're happy and we're diligent
[01:00.25] But that's just if you're listening to marketing transmissions
[01:02.18] Contractually itinerant, a dastardly predicament
[01:04.29] Entrapped within a system hauling scrap for the omnipotent
[01:06.46] Voices in the radio that point us in which way to go
[01:08.54] The base we're excavating
[01:09.44] What we're paid and then the pay we owe
[01:10.55] Uncertain of the purpose to the service that we're slaving over
[01:12.74] Purge the lunar surface of its worth to meet the daily quote
[01:14.68] Some of us are living to work
[01:18.74] Some of us are working to live
[01:22.81] Some of us are making while others are just taking
[01:27.07] And some of us are dying to give
[01:31.12] Whoop! Yay! Hooray! Another day at the office
[01:33.82] Slaving away and generating the profits
[01:35.44] Heading straight for the pockets of the laziest bosses
[01:37.46] If it wasn't for me, then they'd be making a loss
[01:39.67] It's a struggle working double shifts, selling my soul
[01:41.79] So my landlord doesn't have to do any at all
[01:43.68] I'm clearly very important while you're merely a drone
[01:45.82] Giving me steady employment just to dwell in a hole
[01:47.92] That I can barely afford, belly unfilled like Oliver Twist
[01:50.48] Begging for more, I don't want to exist
[01:52.08] No longer stomaching it, wanna be somebody different
[01:54.20] But I'm stuck as it is, so stuff it, double my shifts
[01:56.10] Rub out the family time in your diary, erase it all
[01:58.36] They'll only hire me if I'll be reliably available
[02:00.73] Yet, I appear, clearly entirely replaceable
[02:02.56] The irony's I find it to be kind of inspirational
[02:04.72] Anxiety will make you more inclined to reach a greater goal
[02:06.95] Until you find me crying quietly against the wall
[02:08.86] I miss my wife, I miss my kids, I miss my life, can't live like this
[02:13.18] Perhaps for once if salary might rise in line with rent
[02:17.27] We'd have the funds to rise and shine, not rise in line, content
[02:21.26] To sacrifice our family lives to those on high, hell-bent
[02:25.48] On empires founded on the thousands drowned in the cement
[02:29.76] I am the very model of a model employee
[02:33.82] I never leave my shuttle, can't afford to pay those fees
[02:38.12] My overtime does overtime, I work nine days a week
[02:42.05] And I never hit that bottle 'til it's time to take a pee
[02:46.54] Some of us are making a killing
[02:50.18] While some are barely making a living
[02:54.35] Is a life worth saving without life savings?
[02:58.79] It's a nine-to-five, 25-to-life in prison
[03:03.02] Lift off, ticktock, the big clock's a-ticking
[03:05.28] Drift in, dropped off at the drop ship's position
[03:07.13] Sod tip top condition, a tip's what you live in
[03:09.28] Drop shipping top tip - "Tips will not be given"
[03:11.35] With this cost of living what do lives cost?
[03:13.53] Well, the customer ain't fussed over the lives lost
[03:15.57] We're discounted, under the counter, half off
[03:17.77] In stocks, at the gallows for the price drop
[03:19.75] To rock bottom, ba-da-da-dum
[03:21.36] Sing the jingle, give a whistle, here's your lot, plod on
[03:23.56] It's official, sacrificial, sing the company song
[03:25.65] Before they bop the stop-button on your oxygen
[03:27.86] Two guys moonlight on a new moon nightly
[03:30.22] Tryna find loot like, "Ooh, that'll do nicely"
[03:32.69] Lamp, cookie mold, jar, fish, stop sign
[03:34.63] Pan, whoopie, gold bar, gift box, MINE!
[03:36.65] No, mine
[03:37.74] No, mine
[03:42.88] Should you be hurt in our place of employment
[03:44.83] It'll be worse than a band-aid and some ointment
[03:47.02] There isn't a nurse with whom to make an appointment
[03:49.34] There's really just certain doom, painfully poignant
[03:51.40] Each day tossed upon the scrapheap
[03:52.88] Struggling to meet pay, care to mind the gap, cheap
[03:55.07] Labour can be replaced when there are fatalities
[03:57.12] Several men a week slayed, tumbling from the gantries
[03:59.53] In what kind of dimension is debris so decrepit
[04:01.72] Worth more than all the lives amongst the men you send to get it?
[04:03.81] The minions paid a pittance from the millions you inherit
[04:05.79] And then billed for the equipment
[04:06.81] Before they get to spend the credits
[04:08.43] Have you had an accident at work that wasn't your fault?
[04:12.77] No, you haven't, it absolutely was your fault!
[04:16.55] Some of us are living to work
[04:18.42] Some of us are working to live
[04:20.52] Some of us are making while others are just taking
[04:22.78] And some of us are dying to give
[04:24.40] We all bought the production line
[04:26.01] We all toe the production line
[04:27.83] We all march in production line
[04:30.06] We all signed the production line
[04:33.66] It's a hell of a show, better the devil you know
[04:37.90] Just another shift, try to keep a grip
[04:39.82] Haven't slept a wink and my vision starts to drift
[04:41.68] We're here to sell you your soul, next day and ready to go
[04:46.18] Filling up the ship, just another trip
[04:48.36] Maddened, on the brink, in no position to resist
[04:49.93] The wheels of progress, they turn, so get ahead or go home
[04:54.33] I got a quota to meet or else it's over for me
[04:56.24] And when my rota's complete then I can hopefully leave
[04:58.48] Just never question what burns to run the engines below
[05:02.55] We were sold on a dream but now they won't let us sleep
[05:04.80] Take a moment to grieve and you'll owe them a fee
[05:06.69] My school careers adviser couldn't be any nicer
[05:08.53] She was just like, "Might as well give up and die, bruh"
[05:10.77] It isn't that likely we'll experience retirement
[05:12.60] When staying alive's a minimum requirement
[05:14.57] I've trained, I've tried, 'til I'm strained, I'm tired
[05:16.68] I'd trade my trade for a train driver's
[05:19.21] But I'm afraid that the end of the line
[05:20.87] Isn't a place I'll arrive 'til the end of my life
[05:23.00] I am the very model of a model employee
[05:26.85] Because I'm used to being toyed with by those far bigger than me
[05:31.24] Painfully aware my fate to bear's as cog in a machine
[05:35.55] Just one more face cast off to space for products on a screen
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[05:48.58] We all bought the production line
[05:50.46] We all toe the production line
[05:52.62] We all march in production line
[05:54.57] We all signed the production line
[05:56.62] Some of us are making a killing
[06:00.26] While some are barely making a living
[06:04.10] Is a life worth saving without life savings
[06:08.47] It's a nine-to-five, 25-to-life in prison
[06:13.33] Some of us are living to work
[06:17.16] Some of us are working to live
[06:21.56] Some of us are making while others are just taking
[06:25.21] And some of us are dying to give
[06:30.39] It's a hell of a show, better the devil you know
[06:32.63] We're here to sell you your soul, next day and ready to go
[06:35.62] We all signed the production line
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