Interpret:

Kinks, The

Album:

Think visual

All my life, I've been a workin' man 
When I was at school they said that's all you'll ever understand 
No profession, I didn't figure in their plans 
So they sent me down the factory to be a workin' man 


All I lived for, all I lived for 
All I lived for was to get out of the factory 
Now I'm here seemingly free, but working at the factory 


Then music came along and gave new life to me 
And gave me hope back in 1963 
The music came and set me free 
From working at the factory 


All I lived for, all I lived for 
Was to get out of the factory 
All I lived for, all I lived for 
Was to get out of the factory 


Never wanted to be like everybody else 
But now there are so many like me sitting on the shelf 
They sold us a dream but in reality 
It was just another factory 
I made the music, thought that it was mine 
It made me free, but that was in another time 
But then the corporations and the big combines 
Turned musicians into factory workers on assembly lines 


All we live for, all we live for 
All we live for is to get out of the factory 
We made the music to set ourselves free 
From working at the factory 


All my life I've put in a working day 
Now it's sign the contract, get production on the way 


Take the money, make the music pay 
Working at the factory 
All I lived for was to get out of the factory 


Never wanted to be like everybody else 
But now there are so many like me sitting on the shelf 
They sold us a dream that in reality 
Was just another factory