Factory Fires

Well you can stay in the town that gave birth to you to return to the earth it's built on

Or you can run like the river flowing down to the ocean or a road and on each thereon

And all the music in the world is a swimming pool on the top of the tallest building

Bubbling up to a boil on the water pealing off those echoing walls

Please,

Don't let the fires go out in the factories

Don't let the fires go out in your house

Cause I've always been ready for some steady work

There's never been enough of it to go around

And I never really know why you stick with me

I only know I'm still stuck on you

But if the fires go out in the factories

Then the fires go out in me too

And greeting each day with the same heavy hand holds the hand that made the crack in the door

And lately I've been thinking that the days feel longer as a life gets a little too short

When weeds grow up in the parking lots we shouldn't tell them that we wanted them to

And I always hoped that the difference in me would be enough to make a difference to you

Please,

Don't let the fires go out in the factories

Don't let the fires go out in your house

Cause I've always been ready for some steady work

There's never been enough of it to go around

And I never really know why you stick with me

I only know I'm still stuck on you

But if the fires go out in the factories

Then the fires go out in me too

And I never really know why you stick with me

I only know I'm still stuck on you

But if the fires go out in the factories

Then the fires go out in me too