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Driven Out
 
Last shift of the night
Last shift of any night
Of any year
It all stops right here
Another Dodge rolls out the door
A model no one wants no more
Obsolete
Like my crew and me

They'll drive us out the door
We won't be back no more
Driven out

I read the press reports
Why we've closed our doors
Incentive charts
High gas and foreign cars
All things I can't control
All I do is drive these bolts
The way I've done
Since '91

They'll drive us out the door
We won't be back no more
Driven out

Now the body shop's got rows and rows of unused parts
Carcasses of half-built cars
And the welding guns have lost their spark
It's cold and dark as one by one
We're driven out

Lord, how my elbow stings
Every time the torque gun spins
And my head's in pain
From the clanging chain
This ain't no way to live
Lord, what I wouldn't give
To stay right here
For ten more years

But they drive us out the door
We won't be back no more
Driven out

Copyright Jeffrey L. Stillman