Grindstone (1991 Longview Farm Acoustic Demo)

[Verse 1]

If you find yourself standing

At the end of your line

Looking for a piece of something

Maybe a piece of mind

Fed up, lost, and run down

Nowhere to hold on

Tired of, "Take your place at the end

We'll get to you one by one"

[Chorus]

No light ever shines

On dead end tears that dry

Maybe a waste of words and time

But never a waste of life

[Post-Chorus]

Though every hour will be spent

Filling a quota, just getting along

Handcuffs hurt worse

When you'vе done nothing wrong

[Verse 2]

No thanks to the treadmill

No thanks to thе grindstone

There's plenty of dissent from

These rungs below

The swinging clockwork of destruction

Hanging low over our heads

Satan in the form of a smokestack cloud

For a slow-walking death

[Chorus]

No light ever shines

On dead end tears that dry

Well, maybe a waste of words and time

But never a waste of life

[Instrumental Outro]