Rock the Machine

I'm losing will love
My hands are soft as cotton gloves
Machine has eaten up my job
My meaning, my cause.

Machine with the strength of a hundred men,
Can't feed and clothe my children,
Can't greet a sailor coming in,
Or know of desperation.

I shovel coal down Spencer's dock.
I took your dear into Wedlock.
In you did bear us a beautiful flock,
We will rock the machine down on the dock.
We will rock the machine until it stops.

Oh Lo' if you show me gold!
Like a herring I will go.
Roaring liffy when you're high
Like a cormorant I will dive.

In the cold wind flow I will rise,
We're going off to win back time.
We're going off to win back pride.
We will rock the machine until it dies.

Today dear I'm unemployed.
Before I spoke you read my eyes.
I feared of nothing or no one.
But I feel old and I'm so young.

I miss the graft I miss the boys,
I plead for purpose in the void.
Time is inward, ticking tighter,
I wish my load was a mountain lighter.

I shovel coal down Spencer's dock.
I took your dear into wedlock.
And you did bear us a beautiful flock,
We will rock the machine down on the dock.
We will rock the machine until it stops.

Oh Lo' if you show me gold!
Like a herring I will go.
Roaring liffy when you're high
Like a cormorant I will dive.

In the cold wind flow I will rise,
We're going off to win back time.
We're going off to win back pride.
We will rock the machine until it dies.

We will rock the machine down on the dock.
We will rock the machine until it stops.