Allegheny Lullaby

Slack your rope, coil it around

This here town's just like a hanging ground

It's factory, gas station or join

It's a chain link prison with a tangling wire

And you gonna get cut 'cause you can't climb any higher

Factory, gas station or join

Oh, but I got dreams of a different plan, crossing the river to the promised land

I wanna go down in flames with my sweet Janie, try to get the hell out of Allegheny

With a hand on the bottle and one on the wheel, won't be a slave to the iron and steel

Damned whichever way I'm going, my fate on the flip of a coin

It's factory, gas station or join

Whole county wide is a cut speed trap

It's a half inch of water and a Quikrete sack

Factory, gas station or join

Got your back in the corner, feel the urge to kill

When the light in the tunnel looks like a little white pill

Oh, factory, gas station or join

Oh, but I got dreams of a different plan, crossing the river to the promised land

I wanna go down in flames with my sweet Janie, try get the hell out of Allegheny

With a hand on the bottle and one on the wheel, won't be slave to the iron and steel

Damned whichever way I'm going, my fate on the flip of a coin

It's factory, gas station or join

La la la la la la

La la la la la li

La la la la la la la li

La la la la la la

La la la la la li

Hush, little baby, don't you cry

So pick your uniform but choose it well

Prepare thyself your soul to sell

Factory, gas station or join

Oh, but I got dreams of a different plan, I'm going down the river, gonna wash my hands

Me and Janie gonna come out clean, not smelling like smoke and gasoline

With a hand on the bottle and one on the wheel, won't be slave to the iron and steel

These choices are no choice at all, just the flipping of a coin

It's factory, gas station or join

Oh, but I won't choose no factory

And I won't work no station

And I sure as hell won't join