Knuckles split on the factory line
Choking on air that tastes of grime
Steel to flesh the grind won't stop
Sweat pools I can hear the clock
Boss man barks while we break our backs
Dreams crushed under heavy tracks
How much longer can we hold on
Hope’s a ghost already gone
Cry out loud but no one hears
Drowned in the noise of grinding gears
Desperate hands that ache and bleed
Flames of want turn into greed
Clock hits six but the chains persist
Freedom's a joke a fictitious twist
Rain falls black from the smokestack skies
Closing our eyes to the same old lies
The hunger bites it chews our pride
The fire inside it slowly died
We're pawns in games built to enslave
Living for the dirt cold of the grave
Cry out loud but no one hears
Drowned in the noise of grinding gears
Desperate hands that ache and bleed
Flames of want turn into greed