Labor Day Massacre-Mischief Brew

[ti:Labor Day Massacre] [ar:Mischief Brew] [al:Photographs from the Shoebox] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Labor Day Massacre - Mischief Brew [00:15.07]Brother you know we're all in this alone [00:18.35]Take what you can get break all but your bones [00:21.95]And when they finally ask you [00:23.95]"well what have you done " [00:25.84]Say "life is a game and I've won yes I've won " [00:29.54]Say "life is a game and I've won " [00:31.84] [00:34.59]You gave the asphalt a heave [00:36.97]And then looked back at me [00:38.88]Said "that is a word from the wise one to thee" [00:42.38]When you've been here this long [00:44.37]One day you belong [00:46.04]One day you wake up and forget what seemed wrong [00:49.81]And the first day of may [00:51.62]Well it quietly passed by [00:53.55]And the bosses parade by the night [00:56.63]And you curse [00:57.94]When I say words like "living" and "wage" [01:00.74]You say I've made my house out of mud [01:03.37]So should they [01:04.52]Now the ball field is level let's play [01:07.20] [01:21.38]I pick up the bullets the blood and the rage [01:24.86]That went in there to stir up the eight hour day [01:28.49]Seems the masters [01:29.49]Have found themselves new rats to cage [01:32.18]And the price for a union is great [01:34.76] [01:35.63]Well they gave her a raise [01:37.41]So they raised up a wrench [01:39.32]She says I'll never burst from this box out of men [01:42.90]But she's too scared to talk [01:44.64]And step off the sidewalk [01:46.35]And she shrugs it all off as the luck of the draw [01:50.28]And the labor you cry [01:51.87]That's been robbed from your kind [01:53.84]With dirt on your hands and sweat in your eyes [01:57.34]If the fortunate son really wants to eat dust [02:00.98]Well I'm sure there's a good chance he'll be hired [02:03.60] [02:04.50]There's a million stories of the crimes left to rot [02:08.84] [02:11.50]But I never will raise as long as I sleep on the job [02:16.29] [02:17.24]Oh yeah you say "brother [02:19.78]You know we're all in this alone [02:22.47]Take what you can get break all but your bones [02:25.91]And when they finally ask us well what have you done " [02:29.30] [02:32.08]Say "life is a game and I'm done "