Automation Alley

Duration

3:57

Genres

Alt. Rock

Lyrics

I’m staring at despair, in everybody’s faces, now, we’ll come around. For those who can find work, a living wage is not an option now, just look around At empty buildings every city block, and endless empty parking lots industrialized assembly lines have left us here to rot. Good men and women working round the clock But we’ll all have our lives shipped away. I know it may seem sort of cliche, But I just can’t stand to sit here and watch around me as my whole world decays. And all I’ve read, and all that I’ve known Could never prepare me for what this world had in store. The hungry, the weak, the helpless, they’re right out your front door. Our minimum wage generation ignored. I talked to a man today who got fired via email. Three children to feed, I’m wondering how he will Be able to tell his family that less than a week before Christmas In order to eat, he’ll need to return all of their presents. They’ve broken me now. Can you hear the sound? It’s beating, repeating, it’s coming around. We’re just digging holes 6 feet under the ground And our own machines will cover us now. How we can’t work, and take care of each other, It’s makes no sense to me. All I’ve read, and all that I’ve known Could never prepare me for what this world had in store. The hungry, the weak, the helpless, they’re right out your front door. The working class is working no more.