{"id":523,"date":"2018-01-29T06:36:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T06:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/romina.ca\/wp\/?page_id=523"},"modified":"2018-04-10T15:51:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T15:51:26","slug":"6-the-factory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/romina.ca\/wp\/lyrics\/6-the-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"6. The Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>World War II is over. The fire of fascism is reduced to crumbled embers. The dictator hangs, the monarchy runs, the Pope hides, and the people are left again to rise from the ashes. Once again, there is a new promise: this time it is called, &#8220;Industry.&#8221; Finally there is the hope and desire to dream. Machines push the world into the future and the prospects look shiny and liberating. The peasant, hungry for prosperity, emigrates again: to the north, to the west&#8230;to any land of opportunity. They work <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">hard<\/span>, and they dream big! They know what they leave. They don&#8217;t know what they leave behind.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>6. THE FACTORY (Full Steam Ahead)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><em>Romina (voice, guitar), Elmer Ferrer (guitar), Roberto Occhipinti (double bass), Larnell Lewis (kalimba, drums)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tick tock teams<br \/>\nand fire machines<br \/>\nblack smoke puffs up<br \/>\nAmerican dreams<br \/>\nOh, the wheels grind hard<br \/>\nand the smoke puffs high<br \/>\nand it shoots like a rocket<br \/>\nthrough the radio night<\/p>\n<p>Metal rods rise<br \/>\nthrough the liberty boom<br \/>\nand bombers fly high<br \/>\nthrough the big band tunes<br \/>\nThey\u2019ve got blue suede shoes<br \/>\nand a fine leather coat<br \/>\nand a Fiat 500<br \/>\nand girls that smoke (oh, yeah!)<\/p>\n<p>Leave the farm and the family<br \/>\ncut your loss and the slavery<br \/>\n10 hours a day and weekends free<br \/>\nand vacation paid and base salary<br \/>\nOh, the shiny new world, of The Factory.<\/p>\n<p>3, 2, 1,<br \/>\nand a firing gun<br \/>\nrising up to the sky<br \/>\nlike a hard, hard one<br \/>\nBut it\u2019s dark in the morning<br \/>\nand it\u2019s dark at night<br \/>\nand your world grows dark<br \/>\nwhere there used to be sunlight<\/p>\n<p>Remember the farm and the family<br \/>\nThe mountain air and field songs in harmony<br \/>\n10 hours a days of the same monotony<br \/>\nfor vacation pay and growing fees<br \/>\nOh, the shiny new world&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;the shiny new world, the shiny new world\u2026of The Factory<\/p>\n<p>Twist left, loop one<br \/>\nScrew\/hook right, another one<br \/>\nAgain, again, again, again<br \/>\nit\u2019s never, never done<br \/>\nJust a little spot cog<br \/>\nIn the big machine<br \/>\nYou\u2019re a cog in your own life<br \/>\nand a cog in your own \u201cdream\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Remember the soil, field and trees<br \/>\nWhen you watered, snipped and pulled her weeds<br \/>\ntil the fruit grew ripe, and pure and sweet<br \/>\nthen the harvest reaped, until you dropped another seed<br \/>\nOh, the shiny new world, of The Factory.<\/p>\n<p><em>Words and music by Romina Di Gasbarro \u00a9 2018 Romina Di Gasbarro (SOCAN)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World War II is over. The fire of fascism is reduced to crumbled embers. The dictator hangs, the monarchy runs, the Pope hides, and the people are left again to rise from the ashes. Once again, there is a new promise: this time it is called, &#8220;Industry.&#8221; Finally there is the hope and desire to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":431,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romina.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romina.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romina.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romina.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romina.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/romina.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/romina.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/523\/revisions\/785"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romina.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romina.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}