I Belong in a Factory - Electric Six

Life in 360 degrees

I’m just one of the busy bees

Buzzing in time to the one two threes

Doing heavy lifting and destroying my knees

Kids today, they never say please

But today’s angry youth ain’t angry enough for me

I’m being all I can be

On a working man’s salary

I belong in a factory

Maybe one day I’ll take a day off or three

And I’ll build you a house in a tree

So you can look down at the factory

Consume me

In due time you will come to see

There is nothing wrong with you that’s not wrong with me

With everybody here stepping on my feet

It’s a wonder that both ends always meet

But we separate the chaff from the wheat

Today’s middle class is just so bourgeoisie

And I’m picking up my disease

On a working man’s salary

I belong in a factory

Maybe one day I’ll get my foreman to see

That productivity

Is going way up in the factory

Because of me

Once I was led to believe

That you’d return and come back to me

Working the earth and planting our seeds

Growing alfalfa, carrots and peas

Now my heart, it just bleeds

And bleeds and bleeds ever since you felt the need

To open your mouth and sneeze

All over my working man’s salary

I belong in a factory

Maybe one day when it’s under lock and key

We can start a colony

For people who used to be people in a factory

Like me

Let’s hear it for the factory

The only thing that’s understood me truly

Made a factory man outta me

Three cheers for the factory

Go factory