Assembly Line Hymn

style

• industrial gospel
• dark electronic
• distorted organ
• gospel choir samples
• male bass-baritone
• preaching cadence
• cavernous reverb
• ominous
• american accent
• standard radio arrangement

the numbers

bpm

117

key

G# major

energy

0.72

dance

0.86

valence

0.46

vocal at

7.2s

length

7:59

language

En

lyrics

(spoken, low)
Line three. Second shift. Amen.

Eleven hundred a day, one motion, forty years
My father's hands learned it so well they did it sleeping
He would sit at dinner and his fingers would still work
(still work, still work)
The line goes into the body and it does not come out

They closed it in a Tuesday memo (a memo)
Forty years answered by one page of paper

Assembly line hymn
(hymn, hymn)
The machine took the years and gave back the motion
Assembly line hymn
And still we sing, and still the hands remember

I built an organ from the transmission of a Buick
It plays in the same rhythm his hands used to keep
When I hold a chord the whole room sounds like the plant
(like the plant)
Grown men have wept at that and been embarrassed

He asked me once what the music was for.
I said it's so somebody remembers the sound.
He said "the sound was terrible."
Then he came to every show.
(ORGAN CRASHES BACK)

Assembly line hymn
(hymn, hymn)
The machine took the years and gave back the motion
Assembly line hymn
And still we sing, and still the hands remember

(amen...)