Saddest Factory

I worked Saturdays at the satisfactory factory

After me there would be shift changeover

I'd quit being sober

I'd watch the planes fly over

Think about folks I knew

I used to know a few

I'd call up the number, say, "What's up, brother?

Today is another day, say, what's new?"

Talk and talk

Walk in circles

Around the block

Smack dab in the middle of the lower forty-eight

How could this be any slower than to go to Hell and wait?

Decatur

I'll see you later

Pulverized

Beat down by the mundane

Paralyzed

Goin' insane

Well, the satisfactory's still

Satisfactory, still

Gotta make a livin'

They ain't givin' 'em out

Now if I want my pride

I'd just as soon die

Than be lazy

Smack dab in the middle of the lower forty-eight

How could this be any slower than to go to Hell and wait?

Decatur

I'll see you later

I quit Saturdays at the satisfactory factory

After me there'd be plenty of time

Since I's off the line

I'd drink like a river

Pickled my liver

Watched takers and givers

Shiverin' in the cold, cold light

Now I ain't blamin' nobody for nothin'

But I got somethin' I can't stay

I gotta carry it away

I'd ring up the numbers, call 'em up

No one'd pick up

I guess we talked enough

Smack dab in the middle of the lower forty-eight

How could this be any slower than to go to Hell and wait?

Decatur

I'll see you later

Pulverized

Beat down by the mundane

Paralyzed

Goin' insane

Well, the satisfactory's still

Satisfactory, still

Gotta make a livin'

They ain't givin' 'em out

Now if I want my pride

I'd just as soon die

Than be lazy

Smack dab in the middle of the lower forty-eight

How could this be any different than to go to Hell and wait?

Decatur

I'll see you later