Factory Town

We were born in a factory town
Your daddy had the job as mine
The same job, the same house, the same life as mine

Born and bred in a factory town
Your daddy hit the same bars as mine
The same bars, the same bottle, the same wife as mine
Got punched in and punched out in the same streets as mine

No girl had more beautiful eyes than you had
No one gives me the same kind treat that you do
But honey if you wanna come
You gotta come alone

We were born in a factory town
Your daddy dug the same hole as mine
The same hole for the same coal in the same coal mine as mine

Born and bred in a factory town
Your daddy smoked the same air as mine
Black blood that he coughed up from the same lungs as mine
He wiped grit and wiped dust from the same eyes as mine

No girl had had a more beautiful smile than you had
No one sells better stuff than you do
But honey if you wanna come
You gotta come alone

Now you and me keep hanging around
But no more factory in the factory town
It's dead hope, it's bad dope and a tightening rope
And you are the same kind of wrecked, soft-headed fucker as me
The same kind of post working-class, wrecked, shit-headed fucker as me

No girl had more beautiful eyes than you had
No one gives me the same kind of treat that you do
But honey if you wanna come
You gotta come alone