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, 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 lived for, all we lived for   All we lived 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      Working at the factory