The siren screams to start the day

You get up early to earn your pay

Push the button throw that switch

Turbines roar their unholy pitch

I listen I can hear

Pounding like thunder

Pistons push the steel on steel

Steam filled air turns the wheel

The wheel in turn takes the strain

Pounds the beat again and again



Chorus:

Metal on metal

The feeling of steel

Someone is driving

But you've got the wheel



The workers sing the same old song

Machines in motion they're never wrong

You think in time you will be free

But a factory man is what you'll be

I listen I can hear

Pounding like thunder

Pistons push the steel on steel

Steam filled air turns the wheel

The wheel in turn takes the strain

Pounds the beat again and again



Chorus



Angry young men look to the west

Speak for yourself you'll pass the test

Fortune beholds the brave so they say

Questions unanswered the risk they might pay

I listen I can hear

Pounding like thunder



Chorus



Fade