Friday's Grief Song, 05.09.2025
all my time is lying on the factory floor....
It’s been a while since I’ve shared a Friday’s Grief Song.
This week was a soft gut punch reminding me that it’s always poor and working class men’s bodies on the line of industrialized jobs and behind the machines contributing to the ongoing destruction of the more than human world… men behind the tractors, behind the guns, men behind the excavators, men manning the trawlers, lineman balanced on the high tension wires risking electrocution, men in the prisons, digging and building and sawing and banging and jackhammering and soldering and welding and of course lying on the factory floor.
Whoever was DJing the other morning at KUGS- the college radio station for Western Washington University, thank you. That set was just what I needed to make the morning commute a bit more sweet and I got to hear this song for the first time.
This week’s song is
I Hear You Calling by Bill Fay.
Listen here.
Enjoy!
I Hear you Calling
Written by: Bill Fay
Album: Time Of The Last Persecution
1971
I hear you calling from the riverbank
I will be coming when the air is black
All my time is lying on the factory floor
And all my time is lying on the factory floor
Some say messiah coming got to get it right
Some say messiah coming give me back my time
All my time is lying on the factory floor
And all my time is lying on the factory floor
I hear you calling
I hear you calling
I hear you calling