Boiler Room Gospel

Intro

Scrape the iron

Scrape the wall

Verse 1

Machine hums low and steady

Piston hits the grind

My hands are raw from pulling

The weight that pulls me blind

Shift clock spinning backwards

Paycheck never grows

The foreman's voice is static

Everybody knows

Pre-Chorus

Down in the boiler room

Down where the fires bloom

Chorus

Crawl through the pipeline

Breathe the choking soot

Crawl through the pipeline

Nothing left to lose

Verse 2

Five days and forty hours

Steel against my spine

The lunchroom smells of rust and rain

I carve my name in time

Overtime means nothing

When nothing's ever mine

The grind just keeps on coming

Line after line after line

Pre-Chorus

Down in the boiler room

Down where the fires bloom

Chorus

Crawl through the pipeline

Breathe the choking soot

Crawl through the pipeline

Nothing left to lose

Bridge

Some day the plant will shutter

Some day the bell will ring

I'll walk out through the turnstile

And I won't wear the ring

Chorus

Crawl through the pipeline

Breathe the choking soot

Crawl through the pipeline

Nothing left to lose

Nothing left

Nothing left

Nothing left to prove