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
In the year of 2525 If man is still alive If woman can survive They may find
In the year of 3535 Can't tell the truth, can't tell no lie Everything you think, do and say Is in the pill you took today
In the year of 4545 Won't need no teeth, won't need your eyes Won't find a thing to do Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year of 5555 Your arms are hanging limp at your side Your legs have nothing to do Some machines doin' that for you
In the year of 6565 Won't need no husband, won't need no wife You'll pick your sons, pick your daughters too From the bottom of a long glass tube woo
In the year of 7510 If God is comin' he should make it by then Maybe he'll look around and say: "Now it's time for the judgement day!"
In the year of 8510 God is gonna shake his mighty hand He'll leave a salient place where man has been Or tear it down and start again wouwo
In the year of 9595 I'm wondering if man is gonna be alive He's taken everything earth had to give And he's put back nothing woo
Now it's been ten thousand years man has cried a million tears For what he never knew now man's dream is through But through eternal light the twinklin' of starlight So very far away now it's night to yesterday