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Back around 2006 I was going from job to job. One of the jobs I took was that of a pipe cutter in a steel factory in Coquitlam, BC. I think it was called Continental Steel. Stupidly I started working there in December, and I froze my sack off all day, every day. It was a cold winter and the factory kept the bay doors open all of the time to keep staff from suffocating on welding fumes. Anyway, one of the welders was a 47 year old man named James. He told me he had become a born again Christian. He was by no means a handsome man. Rather, his face looked like a hybrid between a withered potato and a carved pumpkin the day after Halloween, when the firecrackers have blown chunks out of its face and caused an eye to droop. Anyway, James had been working at this steel factory for the past 22 years, pushing the same buttons and welding steel. I quit after two months. Now I live on a tropical island. James probably has stomach ulcers.

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Factory James

Factory James lives in his palace of steel
His slaves count the days until his last meal
He waits on tradition to turn his water to wine
He praises religion for wasting his time

Factory James knows how to be the boss
His slaves work around the clock building the cross
He says that he's willing and proud to pay the price
As he searches for something to sacrifice

Factory James hears the hum of electric light as lullabies
And the coming of night rips the vision from his eyes
He sleeps on his throne in a crown of thorns
With blood on the blade on angel's sword

When asked why he's alive, he'll say
"Well, I guess I have only known how to grow.
I never learned how to die."

Factory James gives the sermon on the mount on Sunday morn
Like someone who died long before he was born
Who knows if his name is Jesus or James
It's all the same to the Jesus in James
It's all the same to the Jesus in James.

(c) Bob Westfall. 2010.

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from OUTLAWS IN CHAINS (2010), released October 1, 2010
Instruments and vocals by Bob Westfall
Djembe by Brandon Williams

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