The Production Line - The Stupendium/Dan Bull.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Gregory Holgate/Dan Bull
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Dustin Pfaff/Rain Watterson
[00:16.326]Steel,
[00:17.202]Iron,
[00:17.817]n**s and bolts
[00:18.863]Poor man’s gold in rusted vaults
[00:20.758]Scrap,
[00:21.352]tin,
[00:21.711]wheels and gears
[00:22.900]Shift by shift and year by year
[00:25.000]Rod,
[00:25.571]beam,
[00:26.036]sheet and plate
[00:27.133]Ironclad, you sealed your fate
[00:29.263]All that shines shall fade in time
[00:31.264]Welded put the day you signed
[00:33.138]The production line
[00:34.859]You better do your best,
[00:35.571]forget about sunshine
[00:36.859]‘Cause you won’t see it where you’re going
[00:38.428]And the only thing you know is
[00:39.280]You won’t get to have your lunch on time
[00:41.093]Or ever again,
[00:42.031]‘cause every second you spend
[00:43.025]That isn’t meeting an end that an executive penned
[00:45.150]Is another debt that you render that’ll let them extend
[00:47.085]Upon the length of your tenure where you’re ever condemned
[00:49.803]Well, would you look at that,
[00:50.756]life’s coming thick and fast, I run and
[00:52.072]Zig and zag
[00:52.804]amid the tat,
[00:53.310]pick and pack, bric-a-brac
[00:54.380]Click and drag,
[00:54.873]mix and match,
[00:55.354]stick a stack in my sack
[00:56.437]‘Til it could fill a skip of scrap then bring it back quick as a flash
[00:58.561]We’re scrappy and resilient,
[00:59.423]we’re happy and we’re diligent
[01:00.512]But that’s just if you’re listening to marketing transmissions
[01:02.562]Contractually itinerant,
[01:03.646]a dastardly predicament
[01:04.783]Entrapped within a system hauling scrap for the omnipotent
[01:06.729]Voices in the radio that point us in which way to go
[01:08.690]The base we’re excavating, what we’re paid and then the pay we owe
[01:10.942]Uncertain of the purpose to the service that we’re slaving over
[01:12.985]Purge the lunar surface of its worth to meet the daily quote
[01:15.264]Some of us are living to work
[01:19.131]Some of us are working to live
[01:23.357]Some of us are making while others are just taking
[01:26.992]And some of us are dying to give
[01:31.557]Whoop! Yay! Hooray!
[01:32.638]Another day at the office
[01:33.833]Slaving away and generating the profits
[01:35.926]Heading straight for the pockets of the laziest bosses
[01:37.989]If it wasn’t for me then they’d be making a loss, it’s
[01:40.241]A struggle working double shifts, selling my soul
[01:42.073]So my landlord doesn't have to do any at all
[01:44.191][I’m clearly very important while you’re merely a drone]
[01:46.205]Giving me steady employment just to dwell in a hole
[01:48.276]That I can barely afford,
[01:49.456]belly unfilled like Oliver Twist
[01:50.745]Begging for more,
[01:51.588]I don’t want to exist
[01:52.684]No longer stomaching it,
[01:53.619]wanna be somebody different
[01:54.641]But I’m stuck as it is, so stuff it, double my shifts
[01:56.720][Rub out the family time in your diary, erase it all]
[01:58.791]They’ll only hire me if I’ll be reliably available
[02:00.906]Yet I appear, clearly entirely replaceable
[02:03.062]The irony’s I find it to be kind of inspirational
[02:05.030][Anxiety’ll make you more inclined to reach a greater goal]
[02:07.252]Until you find me crying quietly against the wall
[02:09.338]I miss my wife
[02:10.234]I miss my kids
[02:11.400]I miss my life
[02:12.409]Can’t live like this!
[02:13.482]Perhaps for once if salary might rise in line with rent
[02:17.540]We’d have the funds to rise and shine, not rise in line, content
[02:21.513]To sacrifice our family lives to those on high, hell bent
[02:25.929]On empires founded on the thousands drowned in the cement
[02:29.959]I am the very model of a model employee
[02:34.342]I never leave my shuttle,
[02:36.039]can’t afford to pay those fees
[02:38.406]My overtime does overtime,
[02:40.502]I work nine days a week
[02:42.647]And I never hit that bottle ‘til it’s time to take a pee
[02:46.813]Some of us are making a killing
[02:50.931]While some are barely making a living
[02:54.542]Is a life worth saving without life savings?
[02:59.103]It’s a 9-to-5, 25-to-life in prison
[03:03.362]Lift off,
[03:03.671]tick tock,
[03:04.391]the big clock’s a-tickin’
[03:05.346]Drift in,
[03:06.150]dropped off at the drop ship’s position
[03:07.766]Sod tip top condition, a tip’s what you live in
[03:09.947]Drop shipping top tip –
[03:10.942]“Tips will not be given”
[03:11.937]With this cost of living what do lives cost?
[03:13.908]Well, the customer ain’t fussed over the lives lost
[03:15.985]We’re discounted, under the counter, half off
[03:18.140]In stocks, at the gallows for the price drop
[03:20.214]To rock bottom, ba-da-da-dum
[03:21.759]Sing the jingle, give a whistle, here’s your lot, plod on
[03:23.818]It’s official, sacrificial, sing the company song
[03:25.828]‘Fore they bop the stop-button on your oxygen
[03:28.038]Two guys moonlight on a new moon nightly
[03:30.551]Tryna find loot like,
[03:31.685]“Ooh that’ll do nicely”
[03:32.824]Lamp, cookie mold, jar, fish, stop sign
[03:34.990]Pan, whoopie, gold bar, gift box, MINE!
[03:37.000]No, mine!
[03:37.959]NO, MINE!
[03:39.319]（mine explodes）
[03:43.273][Should you be hurt in our place of employment]
[03:45.320][It’ll be worse than a band-aid and some ointment]
[03:47.449][There isn’t a nurse with whom to make an appointment]
[03:49.500][There’s really just certain doom; painfully poignant]
[03:51.608]Each day tossed upon the scrapheap
[03:53.534]Struggling to meet pay, care to mind the gap, cheap
[03:55.499]Labour can be replaced when there are fatalities
[03:57.234]Several men a week slayed, tumbling from the gantries
[03:59.565]In what kind of dimension is debris so decrepit
[04:02.060]Worth more than all the lives amongst the men you send to get it?
[04:04.123]The minions paid a pittance from the millions you inherit
[04:06.209]And then billed for the equipment ‘fore they get to spent the credits
[04:08.289][Have you had an accident at work that wasn’t your fault?]
[04:12.486][No, you haven’t]
[04:14.465][It absolutely WAS your fault!]
[04:16.827]Some of us are living to work
[04:18.846]Some of us are working to live
[04:20.666]Some of us are making while others are just taking
[04:22.776]And some of us are dying to give
[04:24.961]We all bought the production line
[04:26.606]We all toe the production line
[04:28.246]We all march in production line
[04:30.276]We all signed the production line
[04:33.439]It’s a hell of a show,
[04:35.890]better the devil you know
[04:37.817](Just another shift, try to keep a grip)
[04:40.021](Haven’t slept a wink and my vision starts to drift)
[04:42.009]We’re here to sell you your soul,
[04:44.080]next day and ready to go
[04:46.187](Filling up the ship, just another trip)
[04:48.424](Maddened, on the brink, in no position to resist)
[04:50.571]The wheels of progress, they turn, so get ahead or go home
[04:54.556](I got a quota to meet or else it’s over for me)
[04:56.800](And when my rota’s complete then I can hopefully leave)
[04:58.823]Just never question what burns to run the engines below
[05:03.117](We were sold on a dream but now they won’t let us sleep)
[05:05.010](Take a moment to grieve and you’ll owe them a fee)
[05:07.050]My school careers adviser couldn’t be any nicer
[05:08.773]She was just like,
[05:09.741]“Might as well give up and die, bruh”
[05:10.865]It isn’t that likely we’ll experience retirement
[05:12.942]When staying alive’s a minimum requirement
[05:14.957]I’ve trained, I’ve tried,
[05:16.146]‘til I’m strained, I’m tired
[05:17.175]I’d trade my trade for a train driver’s
[05:19.201]But I’m afraid that the end of the line
[05:21.190]Isn’t a place I’ll arrive ‘til the end of my life
[05:23.349]I am the very model of a model employee
[05:27.213]‘Cause I’m used to being toyed with by those far bigger than me
[05:31.185]Painfully aware my fate to bear’s as cog in a machine
[05:35.574]Just one more face cast off to space for products on a screen
[05:39.755]Production line
[05:40.637]Production line
[05:41.797]Production line
[05:42.733]Production line
[05:43.927]Production line
[05:44.869]Production line
[05:46.019]Production line
[05:47.214]Production line
[05:48.340]We all bought the production line
[05:50.630]We all toe the production line
[05:52.698]We all march in production line
[05:54.768]We all signed the production line
[05:56.814]Some of us are making a killing
[06:00.739]While some are barely making a living
[06:04.451]Is a life worth saving without life savings?
[06:08.827]It’s a 9-to-5 25-to-life in prison
[06:13.244]Some of us are living to work
[06:17.521]Some of us are working to live
[06:21.847]Some of us are making while others are just taking
[06:25.674]And some of us are dying to give
[06:29.903]It’s a hell of a show, better the devil you know
[06:32.141]We’re here to sell you your soul, next day and ready to go
[06:40.522]We all signed the production line