now i know i had something to say but the problem is to say something

uhh...you gotta say it

and i still don't remember a thing since that funny gas

came out of that pipe next to me / i guess they didn't ok it

now i remember--did i tell ya?

cut my thumb off at the knuckle on a broken band saw

didn't see the belt buckle or the blade slip

and i remember when the doctor did it up with a stitch

funny thing...still got a scratch that i can't itch where my thumb was

now i've brought the same piece of chicken in a bag to work everyday

for the last twenty years or so

and i really don't mind, work assembly line

got an intercom blasting the news and the latest on the baseball scores

come around every friday, well i get a paycheck

take the same road home that i come to work on, heck, it's a living



and i got another factory at home

got a barbeque, pink mustang, fenders chrome

and at nine o'clock i sit there in my chair

and i don't know why i lose my hair

and then i go to / and then i go to / and then i go to sleep



well i like to know what i'm doing when i do it

and i do what i'm doing 'cause i don't know what to do when i'm not doing it

sometimes i remember as a boy my father told me i could grow up

to be anything i really wanted to be / anything

and everyday at lunch i still look for my lost digit

still got that funny scratch, so maybe when i find it i can itch it

and i got a little rubber pool in the backyard for the kids to wade in



and i....i...i...i...i...i?

i got another factory back home

got a little backyard, pink mustang, fenders chrome

at nine o'clock i'm in my chair sat down

just lately now when my wife talks back to me i slap her around

and then i go to / and then i go to / and then i go to sleep