All my life

Working at the factory

The pay looked mighty good to me

When my body was my own

Doctor won't look me in the eye

My youngest child asks why

I won't ever see her grown.



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Now I can feel the darkness

Growing wild inside me

Catching my soul by surprise

You know that you've made it

You got your home, your job, and some good times

Then they tell you it was death in disguise.



In the consultation room

They explain the x-ray slide

I stop the rising tide

Of self-pity and cold fear

Pale in the fluorescent light

I find no one left to fight

And remember all my careless years.



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Half the town works there

So people fear the truth

There's no conclusive proof

There's any danger in those fumes

The company never saw my face

They've got another in my place

Another life to be consumed.



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