Factory Town (feat. Joe Musolino)

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Jon Randel

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Oh I was born in the ash-gray north
In a factory town
When March winds would blow over coal-black snow
And toss litter all around
After decades of a dark decline
Drove its glory to the ground
There was nowhere else to go but down
Factory town
My father worked the graveyard shift
With my mother at the mill
But she died when I was only five
And he was a young man still
The cemetery on the hill
Had the best view to be found
There was nowhere else to go but down
Factory town
My granddad came from miles away
To find a better life
And he fell in love with an Irish girl
And she became his wife
But life in that town was short and sour
Not what they'd hoped to be
And here I stand before you now
Their only legacy
So one June day I said goodbye
To that factory town
Left buildings once so grand and strong
To be leveled to the ground
Fled the murky river and the smokestack smell
I was free and southward bound
There was nowhere else to go but down
Factory town
For years if life was less than good
I assigned that town the blame
And if someone asked where I was from
I would not say its name
Some nights I'd wake from dreams in fear
That I'd die up there alone
Yet a part of me still held it dear
Like it was my one true home
So one rainy morn I headed north
To that less than hallowed ground
All the factories had gone
And the workers moved on
To where new jobs could be found
I pitied the shell that in me raised such hell
And the other way around
And I leaned on a wall
Said a prayer for us all
Factory town
I knelt down, then I stood
And I wished only good for that factory town
It gave us its best
And we laid it to rest
This was my factory town

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