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Artist: Don McGlashan
Title: Toy Factory Fire
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Date: 18/05/2006
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Here's Bart Simpson with his arms all melted and twisted
And here's one of Big Bird with his feathers all matted and black
And here are the rows of young women, wrapped up in bolts of white linen
And the families from the countryside come to take their daughters back
I look up from my desk as the light turns the Hudson to mercury
The rest of the office are getting ready to leave
But it's ten years since the fire; the toy factory fire
And it's going to be one of those weeks that I roll up my sleeves
Chorus:
They said it was a death trap from a textbook
The fire exits just painted on
Locks and chains to keep out the unions
Piles of white nylon all around
But we built a dozen more to fill our orders
We've had to keep moving around
Since May the 10th, 1993
The Kader Toy Factory burnt down
'Cause a fire in Thailand could be a bus crash in Africa
The stories weren't big; they did not make the six o'clock news
But the pictures are something else
They could have ridden us down to hell
I knew this was a fight we could not afford to lose
(Chorus)
I look at the photographs once more in the Manhattan sunset
The same light falls on the one of my wife and my kids
But I put them back in the file, permit myself a smile
Keeping them hidden was the best work I ever did
'Cause people like us, we do make the world better
And if it's better for us, it's better for everyone
I open the window to the rush-hour sirens on West Street
I see the power and the glory all over this town
All over this town
All over this town
All over this town
All over this town
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