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One Man Per Train (Corporate Games)

from Songwriting Challenges 2013 by Dolores Dagenais

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One Man Per Train (Corporate Games)

All for the want of a brake man how many lives were lost?
All for the bottom line figure
All for cutting the cost
This is supposed to be
A regulated industry
Well that depends on whose pocket you’re in
One man per train it doesn’t matter what danger they’re in

Oh the job of the brakeman was to secure all the stops
But they put him out to pasture
When the technology caught up
The thing about technology
Is it can fail as easily
And it doesn’t have that ‘gut thing’ to go on
One man per train it doesn’t matter what danger they’re in

All of this progress advances; all of these changes come round
‘Til its Russian Roulette with the chances
And lives in these little towns
If it’s not through our back yard
We can cut the corners, work them hard
Chew them up and grind them down
One man per train it doesn’t matter what danger they’re in

All for the want of a brakeman city blocks lie in ruin
The corporate clowns point their fingers
And say he didn’t know what he was doing
The difference between them and us
They’ll throw the guy under the bus
Before the wrecks even cooling
One man per train it doesn’t matter what danger they’re in

Everyone from that town has my sympathy, that engineer has my pity
These corporate games are not friendly
These corporate games are not pretty
We’re the only ones that loose
Cause they’re the ones that make the rules
And the rules only work in their favour
One man per train it doesn’t matter what danger we’re in.

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from Songwriting Challenges 2013, released February 1, 2013

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