Rock the Machine

I'm losing will, love My hands are soft as cotton gloves Machine has eaten up my job My meaning, my cause Machine with the strength of a hundred men Can't feed and clothe my children Can't greet a sailor coming in Or know of desperation I shovel coal down Spencer's dock I took your dear into wedlock And you did bear us a beautiful flock River rock the machine down on the docks River rock the machine until it stops Oh low Liffey, show me gold Like a heron I will go Oh roaring Liffey when you're high Like a cormorant I will dive In the Galway glow at night we rise We're gold enough to win back time We're gold enough to win back the pride River rock the machine until it dies Today, dear, I'm unemployed Before I spoke, you read my eyes I feared of nothing or no one But I feel old and I'm so young I miss the graft, I miss the boys I plead for purpose in the void Time is inward, ticking tighter I wish my load was a mountain lighter I shovel coal down Spencer's dock I took your dear into wedlock And you did bear us a beautiful flock River rock the machine down on the docks River rock the machine until it stops Oh low Liffey, show me gold Like a heron I will go Oh roaring Liffey when you're high Like a cormorant I will dive In the Galway glow at night we rise We're gold enough to win back time We're gold enough to win back the pride River rock the machine until it dies River rock the machine down on the docks River rock the machine until it stops