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Smallcreep’s Day Lyrics by Mike Rutherford

Smallcreep’s Day

1980

Smallcreep had worked for over forty years in the factory. till one day, tired of drilling holes in the same piece of steel and amazed at his fellow workers' lack of interest as to what they wer
Ing, he decided to find out himself

The plant was so large that he roamed for days glimpsing other worlds that were completely different to his; and not one knew of another's existence. at last he came to the end of the line and t
Before him lay the gleaming new machine

Satisfied by this sight and with the knowledge that in all the places he had been nothing was really changed, smallcreep returned home

Between the tick and the tock

It's so very dark in here
There's water on the wall
I can see no lights and what's that sound
That droning far above the smoke
And everywhere I look their eyes are watching me

Hello my friend
The day is long and I am very hot
This metal world
The lower half of every face is lit
Everytime I look the clock is calling me
On the tick and the tock

I've got my love to get me there
But I've more pain that I can bare
There is a world to find and share
Oh saturday - oh saturday
And I can see a dying race, who live their lives
On the tick and the tock, in between

Working in line

I'm hopelessly waiting in line
For what I don't know I don't mind
There's never a day that goes by
Without blood on my hands in my hair

I'm hopelessly working in line
On what I don't care I don't mind
There's nothing that I would give
To see what comes out at the end

Cats and rats (in this neighbourhood)

Say I'm going, yes I am going in another day
Coz if I do go home I've nothing left to say
I'm a man who clocked on but out of my life
When the lights go out tonight I'll make my move
Too many years and all those tears have gone so deep inside me
Oh no!

Along the edge, above the metal dreamlike streamlike world
Way up above looking down up row after row of factory machines
There's no time like the present
Singing a song I brought along to keep me company

Aching back, my breath coming fast my feet getting lighter, i
I feel kind of dizzy

Running up, I'm running down
I am nearly there, I am, I'm nearly there
The light in the distance is getting so much brighter
I'm a no-man in a no-man's land

The metal girders that stand all around have now gone
The sky through the skylight's a different shade of blue
Cats and rats in this neighbourhood
Cats and rats in this neighbourhood
Look different to me

Let it be a better day - for you my love
Let it be a better day - for me my love

At the end of the day

The day is nearly ended hurry home to your bed
My nights are oh so lonely come and lay down your head
The eyes of all our children growing heavy with sleep
And with one final flicker into a world full of dreams

Oh I need you now through the lonely nights
And when the morning comes upon us
I'll be holding you so close to me

The grass is never greener either side of the wall
If I am here or somewhere many miles away
For I have come to realize nothing changes at all

Oh I need you now through the lonely nights
And when the morning comes upon us
I'll be holding you so close to me
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Mike Rutherford

Mike Rutherford

About “Smallcreep’s Day” by Mike Rutherford

Read the complete lyrics to "Smallcreep’s Day" by Mike Rutherford from the album "Smallcreep’s Day" in 1980. On Lyrks you can follow along with the full text, explore the artist's discography, and discover related songs. The track is often categorized under Pop.

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"Smallcreep’s Day" appears on "Smallcreep’s Day" in 1980.

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