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Stop the bus
I want to be lonely
When seconds pass slowly
And years go flying by
You gotta stop the bus
I'll get off here
Enough's enough
I'm leaving this factory
All she wants
Is food on the table
I won't be able
To bring it home
All she wants, come on,
All I need is free
Cause I'm a factory
Did Mother Nature tell you
Boy you come and go as you please
That's what she said to me
But Big brother got the keys
And I got Jackson Cannery
Millionaires and mill rats live side by side here,
Messed up my brother's mind
He's far from earth
What's he worth
The same as you the same as me
In this factory
Did Mother Nature tell you
Boy you come and go as you please
That's what she said to me
But Big brother got the keys
And I got Jackson Cannery
(Whoa)(Come on)(Whoa)(Whoa)
(That's pretty good, try it again)
(Whoa)
It's 4 in the morning
Mother don't know
That I'm going far away
She's whispering to the moon
I hope he don't join you soon
Baby boss
Climbs up on his soapbox
But Great Caesar's ghost
Knows what's best for me
He says stop the bus
Did Mother Nature tell you
Boy you come and go as you please
That's what she said to me
But Big brother got the keys
And I got Jackson Cannery
Big brother got the keys
And I got Jackson Cannery
Big brother got the keys
And I got Jackson Cannery
I want to be lonely
When seconds pass slowly
And years go flying by
You gotta stop the bus
I'll get off here
Enough's enough
I'm leaving this factory
All she wants
Is food on the table
I won't be able
To bring it home
All she wants, come on,
All I need is free
Cause I'm a factory
Did Mother Nature tell you
Boy you come and go as you please
That's what she said to me
But Big brother got the keys
And I got Jackson Cannery
Millionaires and mill rats live side by side here,
Messed up my brother's mind
He's far from earth
What's he worth
The same as you the same as me
In this factory
Did Mother Nature tell you
Boy you come and go as you please
That's what she said to me
But Big brother got the keys
And I got Jackson Cannery
(Whoa)(Come on)(Whoa)(Whoa)
(That's pretty good, try it again)
(Whoa)
It's 4 in the morning
Mother don't know
That I'm going far away
She's whispering to the moon
I hope he don't join you soon
Baby boss
Climbs up on his soapbox
But Great Caesar's ghost
Knows what's best for me
He says stop the bus
Did Mother Nature tell you
Boy you come and go as you please
That's what she said to me
But Big brother got the keys
And I got Jackson Cannery
Big brother got the keys
And I got Jackson Cannery
Big brother got the keys
And I got Jackson Cannery
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Men innately feel the need to wander, not be tied down ("did mother nature tell you boy you come and go as you please?") But Big Brother's got the keys - the machine of societal pressure binds us. And I've got Jackson Cannery - the factory that he has become.
And all men are in the same situation - whether they be millionaires or mill rates, they're all worth nothing but the factory they represent to their wives.
The 4 in the morning thing is him leaving his wife in the middle of the night.
Anyway, that's my interpretation.
it seems like a social statement, about socialism and such. BF is tired of the socialist, "everyone is equal" view that is held in worker's unions... like how the "millionaire and mill rats live side by side." He doesn't think that everyone should be stuck in these factories, pretending like everyone is equal, where everyone does everything for everyone, but nothing for himself or herself. At that point, no one gets anything, but everyone gets what they need... which in a socialist state, is technically "nothing"; everything is pooled for the group, rather than the individual. Thus, "the factory" provides everything for everyone, but nothing for the individual... and no one is really happy.
"Mother Nature," or basically, human nature, he says, says that people should do what they please and be what they want, without being bound by the social rules of equality and "justice." But "big brother," the mysterious, collective head as portrayed in 1984, (which by reference to 'mother nature,' is given some relation to the speaker) has got "the keys," conceivably to the doors of opportunity, and thus, "i've got jackson cannery"; he has nothing.
That's just coming from a tired english student though. who knows... good song.
It's about not wanting to just live life, being a victim of the 'factory' and going along with the crowd, doing what you're told to and then yourself becoming a 'factory' and having kids and forcing them down the same road of just making sure there's 'food on the table'.
He writes it in the way about a girl, who he doesn't want to be with, becasue she's just going along with ife in this way, but he wasnts to do what HE wants and that's to be in a band. If he didn't do what he wanted then life is worthles, even if he became a millionaire whose life is as worthless as a 'mill rat'.
Seems he's mostly talking about how against human nature it is to spend most of your life working in a factory (or wherever).... so here's this guy who just says, "fuck it, I'm outta here!"
The "she's whispering to the moon: 'I hope he don't join ya soon'" is probably a reference to her praying that he doesn't die! Damn Ben is freaking lyrical genious, that's such a cool way to phrase that.
Mother don't know
That I'm going far away
She's whispering to the moon
'I hope he don't join you soon'
Maybe she's hoping that her son doesn't join his brother that's 'far from earth'?
Buyt I do not think that Jackson Cannery is a person, so there's no point looking him up on the internet - Jackson cannery, as in a factory, where they can things... that would make sense....