All the Machines Are Quiet - Robert Calvert

We’re walking out

We’re downing our tools

This management

They take us for fools

All we’re asking is

A living wage

A living wage

A living wage

And now

There’s nothing I can do

I spend my days in dreams

And join the endless queue

So far from the machines

All the machines are quiet

I could scream

All the machines are quiet

I’ll take the kids

To Chessington zoo

The big gorilla

He looks just like you

Watch that tiger

Pacing in his cage

I feel his rage

I feel his rage

And now

There’s nothing

I can do

I spend my days in dreams

And join the endless queue

So far from the machines

All the machines are quiet

I could scream

All the machines are quiet

The winter’s coming

We need new shoes

I’m selling the car

I’m paying my dues

The union bosses

Tell us five more weeks — five more weeks —

Five more weeks

And now

There’s nothing

I can do

I spend my days in dreams

And join the endless queue

So far from the machines

All the machines are quiet

I could scream

All the machines are quiet