Story Behind The Song
The result of an all-nighter coffee and poetry sampling with unkown poet Gill Write in the Northern California wine counrty in 1974 after a Woodbine gig. So impressed with the prolific interior life of this phyisically impared man that I tried to write th
Song Description
A dynamiclly building passionate vocal driving piece about the interior poetic vision of a man confined to a wheel chair.
| Song Length |
3:43 |
Genre |
Folk - Rock, Folk - Alternative |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Duet Male/Female |
| Mood |
Exultant, Tense |
Subject |
Existence, Power |
| Similar Artists |
Harry Chapin, Peter, Paul & Mary |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1970 - 1979 |
| |
Lyrics
FACTORY
Music by Roger Bolt
Arrangement by Roger Bolt & JoAnna Noble
Adapted from a poem by G. Wright
Heart pump, brain sing
Senses reel from everything
Body ache, felling pain
The bittersweet then back again.
Why not design a great big room
Complicated as a loom
Where fabric never seen before
As fresh as dew begins to pour
Off the wheels and out the door
Off the wheels and out the door
If a wheel turns
And a product seems to say
I am made of dreams
Hold me, see meÂ?let me be a part of you
Or leave me.
In fact it was all done before
A factory built from a scholar's lore
Except of course we now by chance
Call it all a renaissance.
The Factory functions on and on
The loom keeps fabric pouring out
The pace is civil, though once a shout
Was heard to say.
It's done
It's done
It's done.