Urban Rubble
15th July 2003, 05:46
I literally had tears in my eyes when I listened to this song. I couldn't believe a song moved me that much. I never thought it possible. It's a song about the working class. My father has worked 10 to 12 hour days 5 or 6 days a week for the last 20 or so years as an electrician. I have worked on contruction sites since I was 14, full time since 16. I guess it just hit close to home.
Everyone go buy this disc, or at least download some of it off Kazaa, it's called "Blackout", it's by the Dropkick Murphys.
"Workers Song"
This ones for the workers who toil night and day
By hand and by brain, to earn you pay
For centuries past, for no more than your bread
You've bled for your countries and counted your dead
In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines
We've often been told to keep up with the times
For our skills are not needed, they've streamlined the job
And with slide rule and stopwatch, our pirde they have robbed
We're the first ones to starve and the first ones to die
The first ones in line for that pie in the sky
And we're always the last, when the cream is shared out
For the worker is working while the fat cats are out
And when the sky darkens and the prospect is war
Who's given the gun and pushed to the fore
And expected to die, for the land of your birth
Though we've never even owned a lousy handful of dirt
And all of these things, the worker has done
From tilling the fields to carrying the gun
We've been yoked to the plow, since time first began
And always expected to carry the can
You have to hear this song. Put to music it is some fucking amazing. The rest of the album is too. The Dropkick Murphys have officially become punk rock legends with this album.
Everyone go buy this disc, or at least download some of it off Kazaa, it's called "Blackout", it's by the Dropkick Murphys.
"Workers Song"
This ones for the workers who toil night and day
By hand and by brain, to earn you pay
For centuries past, for no more than your bread
You've bled for your countries and counted your dead
In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines
We've often been told to keep up with the times
For our skills are not needed, they've streamlined the job
And with slide rule and stopwatch, our pirde they have robbed
We're the first ones to starve and the first ones to die
The first ones in line for that pie in the sky
And we're always the last, when the cream is shared out
For the worker is working while the fat cats are out
And when the sky darkens and the prospect is war
Who's given the gun and pushed to the fore
And expected to die, for the land of your birth
Though we've never even owned a lousy handful of dirt
And all of these things, the worker has done
From tilling the fields to carrying the gun
We've been yoked to the plow, since time first began
And always expected to carry the can
You have to hear this song. Put to music it is some fucking amazing. The rest of the album is too. The Dropkick Murphys have officially become punk rock legends with this album.