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a poor boy complain
Work like a slave to stay out of the rain
Then they closed the factory down
Yeah, they closed the factory down

But just across

closed

All I'm trying to do is make a penny
But crooked cops beating down my door
Like I beat down Reginald Denny
They're in position with they shot guns

closed the factory down
Y'know the people don't come round no more
Yeah we're all out looking for the same old thing
An honest living and a decent wage
But

on the mountain howled and the birds they loved to sing
They called it Happy Valley in the days before the dam
Before the hand of man it came to alter natures' plan

walking down the track
And they never went further, no, they never went back

Then came the churches, then came the schools
Then came the lawyers, then

Telegraph Road

Dire Straits

Love Over Gold

1982

a home in the wilderness

Built a cabin and a winter store
And he plowed up the ground by the cold lake shore
The other travelers came walking down

or just disappeared 

Most of the stores by the four-way were closed, and 
The Chevrolet garage is long gone
Grandpa's old house, they finally tore down

Lay down your head
You're not alone
Anywhere you go, I follow
We are the children of the sun
That's all you need to know

Lay down your head

they handle us
They Fuck Us
But our relationship has never been amorous
BoJo weds Carrie politics is never glamorous
Freedom Day approaches
But June is

What Do You Do?

The Proclaimers

Sunshine on Leith

1988

the answers
But Poverty and Failure
Aren't what I'm after

I painted "Fight" on factories
But they closed the factory down pal
I want to find out where

show
If you see right through me
Let me know
If you see right through things
Keep your both eyes closed
Sitting down to have a talk with my ghosts
All my

Children of the Sun

Tinie Tempah

Demonstration

2013

Lay down your head
You're not alone
Anywhere you go, I follow
We are the children of the sun
That's all you need to know

Lay down your head
You're

Ruffin on a cloudy day
Hold up my nigga, you get that?
Turn the other cheek, they can kiss that
Don't got time for the chit chat
Money on the floor, let's

Out

Insane Clown Posse

The Terror Wheel

1994

a story
So sit your ass down
Shut the fuck up
And get stoned motherfucker

Well I'm waking up so early cause I knew this day would come
My daddy's passed

But Poverty and Failure
Aren't what I'm after.
I painted "fight" on factories
But they closed the factory down, pal.
I want to find out where

closed down my old school
Now its nothin but a memory
And memories they mold you
She say do what Momma told you
Be all that you wanna be don't end up like

key
I be buying every new release like I'm a hypebeast
Got em from a factory overseas but they was not cheap
My eyes closed geeking off this bean but I

On the council estate
Domestic issues spilling out on the street
It's just another day in the life
Of a town that time forgot

They shut the factory down
Before

Up on the Newport Ridge
It's there that I lived
With my husband Joe and a couple of kids
He worked the factory by day
And the fields by night

memories live on
Something the past from the future demands
And when I look down the road, the stories of old
Are still happening up to this day
They say

You can ask my old friends 
Actually
Since we grew apart they can’t chat to me
I reset my settings to factory
But I know deep down they all clap for me

idle by the Tyne and Gordie's out of work
They've mechanized the plow and the navvy computerized the clerk
They've DIYed the building trade and closed

in the sky, my head was down, didn't notice it
And what they know me for
Choose the closed before the open door
Open door policy, I should've told you

The future is unknown
We see people, they look happy
Together alone
And on days like this I think about how simple life can be

Oh, the sun is up
Shining in