| 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 |