Toy Factory Fire-Don McGlashan

[ti:Toy Factory Fire] [ar:Don McGlashan] [al:Warm Hand] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Toy Factory Fire - Don McGlashan [00:17.85]Here's bart simpson [00:19.29]With his arms all melted and twisted [00:22.28] [00:26.31]And here's one of big bird [00:28.20]With his feathers all matted and black [00:30.71] [00:34.94]And here are the rows of young women [00:37.79] [00:39.42]Wrapped up in bolts of white nylon [00:42.26] [00:43.32]And the families from the countryside come [00:46.17]To take their daughters back [00:47.83] [00:51.76]I look up from my desk [00:53.26]As the light turns the hudson to mercury [00:57.08] [01:00.73]The rest of the office are getting ready to leave [01:05.50] [01:09.15]But it's 10 years since the fire [01:11.78] [01:13.71]The toy factory fire [01:16.46] [01:18.06]It's going to be one of those weeks [01:20.63] [01:21.19]I roll up my sleeves [01:23.19] [01:26.56]They said it was a death trap [01:30.29]From a text-book [01:32.35] [01:35.21]Fire exits just painted on [01:40.37] [01:43.80]Locks and chains to keep out the unions [01:49.22] [01:52.59]Piles of white nylon all around [01:56.68] [02:00.80]But we've built a dozen more [02:04.62]To fill our orders [02:07.15] [02:09.54]We've had to keep moving around [02:15.00] [02:17.98]Since May 10th 1993 [02:22.99] [02:26.64]When the kader toy factory burnt down [02:30.77] [02:47.93]Cause a fire in Thailand [02:50.27]Could be a bus crash in Africa [02:53.27] [02:56.71]The stories weren't big [02:58.19]They did not make the six o'clock news [03:01.75] [03:05.01]But the pictures were something else [03:07.82] [03:08.93]They could have driven us down to hell [03:12.42] [03:13.88]I knew this was a fight [03:15.63]We couldn't afford to lose [03:18.56] [03:22.34]They said it was a death trap [03:26.00]From a text-book [03:27.79] [03:30.93]Fire exits just painted on [03:36.32] [03:39.65]Locks and chains to keep out the unions [03:44.90] [03:48.18]Piles of white nylon all around [03:52.49] [03:56.34]But we've built a dozen more [04:00.24]To fill our orders [04:02.69] [04:05.18]We've had to keep moving around [04:10.70] [04:13.53]Since May 10th 1993 [04:18.33] [04:22.03]When the kader toy factory burnt down [04:27.22] [05:08.66]I look at the photographs once more [05:11.55]In the Manhattan sunset [05:13.66] [05:17.07]The same light falls [05:18.43]On the one of my wife and my kids [05:21.87] [05:25.50]Then I put them back in the file [05:28.33] [05:29.84]Permit myself a smile [05:32.51] [05:34.06]Keeping them hidden was the best work [05:37.01]I ever did [05:38.64] [05:42.48]Cause people like us [05:44.36]We do make the world better [05:47.65] [05:50.61]And if it's better for us [05:52.34]It's better for everyone [05:55.80] [05:59.18]I open the window to the rush hour sirens [06:03.19]On West Street [06:05.17] [06:07.88]I see the power [06:09.65]And the glory all over this town [06:14.74]All over this town [06:17.76] [06:23.47]All over this town [06:28.07] [06:32.18]All over this town [06:35.07] [06:40.35]All over this town