Lyrics
The air-brake on the number six press finally gave out tonight.
It's three forty-seven, Tuesday, under this parking lot light.
Sorry to call… know you're sleepin', but I couldn't hold the line.
Felt a gear slip in my own chest, right around the spine.
[Chorus]
So I'm hanging up these steel-toes, lettin' the engine cool.
Told foreman Stan I'm finished, I ain't nobody's mule.
[Verse 2]
Remember you said, 'It's just a job, not a casket made of tin'?
Tonight I smelled the cutting fluid and it was seeping in.
Saw my grandpa's ghost in the slag-heap, face all pale and thin.
That's a legacy of rust, babe, and I can't let it win.
[Chorus]
So I'm hanging up these steel-toes, lettin' the engine cool.
Told foreman Stan I'm finished, I ain't nobody's mule.
[Instrumental Break]
(No vocals for 20 seconds — just a treated, echoing guitar and the distant sound of machinery fading)
[Bridge]
Don't know where the road goes from this busted factory gate.
But for the first time in a decade, I don't feel like I'm running late.
[Outro]
Anyway. Just... wanted you to hear it first. Talk soon.
About Johnny Crawford
Johnny Crawford is from Gary, Indiana, the son of a third-generation Polish-American steelworker. He works the night-shift as a factory maintenance tech, writing songs on his grandfather's cracked 1968 Gibson about the lives of the people he sees every day. His music is a raw, unflinching portrait of the American Rust Belt, carrying the torch of outlaw storytellers like Johnny Cash and Steve…
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