Im losing will love My hands are soft as cotton gloves Machine has eaten up my job My meaning, my cause Machine with the strength of a hundred men Cant feed and clothe my children Cant greet a sailor coming in Or know of desperation I shoveled coal down Spencers Dock I took you dear into wedlock And you did bear us a beautiful flock River rock the machine down on the docks River rock the machine until it stops O low Liffey show me gold Like a heron I will go O roaring Liffey when youre high Like a cormorant I will dive And the gold will glow and I will rise With gold enough to wind back time With gold enough to win back pride River rock the machine until it dies Today dear I am unemployed Before I spoke you read my eyes I feared over nothing or no one But I feel old and Im so young I miss the graft, I miss the boys I plead for purpose in the void Time is inward ticking tighter I wish my load was a mountain lighter I shoveled coal down Spencers Dock I took you dear into wedlock And you did bear us a beautiful flock River rock the machine down on the docks River rock the machine until it stops O low Liffey show me gold Like a heron I will go O roaring Liffey when youre high Like a cormorant I will dive And the gold will glow and I will rise With gold enough to wind back time With gold enough to win back pride River rock the machine until it dies River rock the machine down on the docks River rock the machine until it stops
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