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Factory

Song · 1978 · Bruce Springsteen. Album: Darkness on the Edge of Town

For the kids of parents who worked themselves to the bone 🏭

Who it's for

Springsteen portrays a son watching his father head to the factory each day and come home exhausted and changed.

Heavy and resentful→Understood

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What it is

"Factory" is a track on Bruce Springsteen's fourth studio album, Darkness on the Edge of Town, released by Columbia Records in 1978. It is a meditative rock and country-influenced ballad about the repetitive grind of working life. It portrays a factory-worker father whose life is consumed by his job, though he works to provide for his family.

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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, no. 184

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