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Patti Smith
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Sixteen and time to pay off
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I get this job in a piss factory inspecting pipe
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Forty hours, thirty-six dollars a week
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But it's a paycheck, Jack
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So hot in here, hot like Sahara
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You could faint from the heat
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But these bitches are just too lame to understand
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Too goddamned grateful to get this job
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To know they're getting screwed up the ass
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All these women, they got no teeth or gum or cranium
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And the way they suck hot sausage
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But me, well, I wasn't sayin' too much neither
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I was moral school girl, hard-working asshole
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I figured I was speedo motorcycle
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I had to earn my dough, had to earn my dough
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But no, you gotta, you gotta relate, babe
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You gotta find the rhythm within
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Floor boss slides up to me and he says
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"Hey sister, you're just movin' too fast
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You're screwin' up the quota
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You're doin' your piece work too fast"
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"Now you get off your mustang, Sally
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You ain't goin' nowhere, you ain't goin' nowhere"
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I layed back, I get my nerve up, I take a swig of Romilar
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And walk up to hot shit Dot Hook and I say
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"Hey, hey sister, it don't matter whether I do labor fast or slow
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There's always more labor after
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She's real Catholic, see, she fingers her cross and she says
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There is one reason, there is one reason"
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"You do it my way or I push your face in
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We knee you in the John
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If you don't get off your get off your mustang, Sally
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If you don't shake it up, baby, shake it up, baby"
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Twist and shout, oh what I could will a radio here
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James Brown singing 'I Lost Someone'
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Or the Jesters and the Paragons and Georgie Woods
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The guy with the goods and Guided Missiles
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But no, I got nothin', no diversion, no window
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Nothing here but a porthole in the plaster, in the plaster
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Where I look down, look at Sweet Theresa's convent
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All those nurses, all those nuns scattin' 'round
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With their bloom hoods like cats in mourning
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Oh to me, they, you know
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To me they look pretty damn free down there
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Down there, not having to press those smooth
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Not having to smooth those hands against hot steel
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Not having to worry about the in-speed
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The dogma of in-speed of labor
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Oh then they put damn free down there
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The way they smell, the way they smell
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And here I gotta be up here smellin' Dot Hook's midwife sweat
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I would rather smell the way boys smell
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Oh, those schoolboys, way their legs flap
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Under the desk in the study hall
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That odor rising roses and ammonia
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And way their dicks droop like lilacs
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Or the way they smell that forbidden acrid smell
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But no, I gotta, I gotta put clammy lady in my nostril
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Her against the wheel, me against the wheel
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Oh, the in-speed-o, slow motion inspection is drivin' me insane
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In steel next to Dot Hook, oh, we may look the same
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Shoulder to shoulder sweatin' 110 degrees
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But I will never faint, I will never faint
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They laugh and they expect me to faint but I will never faint
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I refuse to lose, I refuse to fall down
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Because you see it's the monotony that's got to me
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Every afternoon like the last one
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Every afternoon like a rerun next to Dot Hook
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And yeah, we look the same
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Both pumpin' steel, both sweatin'
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But you know she got nothin' to hide
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And I got something to hide here called desire
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I got something to hide here called desire
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And I will get out of here
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You know the fiery potion is just about to come
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In my nose is the taste of sugar
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And I got nothin' to hide here, save desire
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And I'm gonna go, I'm gonna get out of here
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I'm gonna get out of here, I'm gonna get on that train
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And I'm gonna go on that train and go to New York City
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I'm gonna be somebody
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I'm getting, gonna get on that train
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Go to New York City
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I'm gonna be so big, I'm gonna be a big star and I will never return
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Never return, no, never return, to burn at this piss factory
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And I will travel light, oh, watch me now
Patti Smith - "Piss Factory"
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