[ti:Toy Factory Fire]
[ar:Don McGlashan]
[al:Warm Hand]
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[00:00.00]Toy Factory Fire - Don McGlashan
[00:17.85]Here's bart simpson
[00:19.29]With his arms all melted and twisted
[00:26.31]And here's one of big bird
[00:28.20]With his feathers all matted and black
[00:34.94]And here are the rows of young women
[00:39.42]Wrapped up in bolts of white nylon
[00:43.32]And the families from the countryside come
[00:46.17]To take their daughters back
[00:51.76]I look up from my desk
[00:53.26]As the light turns the hudson to mercury
[01:00.73]The rest of the office are getting ready to leave
[01:09.15]But it's 10 years since the fire
[01:13.71]The toy factory fire
[01:18.06]It's going to be one of those weeks
[01:21.19]I roll up my sleeves
[01:26.56]They said it was a death trap
[01:30.29]From a text-book
[01:35.21]Fire exits just painted on
[01:43.80]Locks and chains to keep out the unions
[01:52.59]Piles of white nylon all around
[02:00.80]But we've built a dozen more
[02:04.62]To fill our orders
[02:09.54]We've had to keep moving around
[02:17.98]Since May 10th 1993
[02:26.64]When the kader toy factory burnt down
[02:47.93]Cause a fire in Thailand
[02:50.27]Could be a bus crash in Africa
[02:56.71]The stories weren't big
[02:58.19]They did not make the six o'clock news
[03:05.01]But the pictures were something else
[03:08.93]They could have driven us down to hell
[03:13.88]I knew this was a fight
[03:15.63]We couldn't afford to lose
[03:22.34]They said it was a death trap
[03:26.00]From a text-book
[03:30.93]Fire exits just painted on
[03:39.65]Locks and chains to keep out the unions
[03:48.18]Piles of white nylon all around
[03:56.34]But we've built a dozen more
[04:00.24]To fill our orders
[04:05.18]We've had to keep moving around
[04:13.53]Since May 10th 1993
[04:22.03]When the kader toy factory burnt down
[05:08.66]I look at the photographs once more
[05:11.55]In the Manhattan sunset
[05:17.07]The same light falls
[05:18.43]On the one of my wife and my kids
[05:25.50]Then I put them back in the file
[05:29.84]Permit myself a smile
[05:34.06]Keeping them hidden was the best work
[05:37.01]I ever did
[05:42.48]Cause people like us
[05:44.36]We do make the world better
[05:50.61]And if it's better for us
[05:52.34]It's better for everyone
[05:59.18]I open the window to the rush hour sirens
[06:03.19]On West Street
[06:07.88]I see the power
[06:09.65]And the glory all over this town
[06:14.74]All over this town
[06:23.47]All over this town
[06:32.18]All over this town
[06:40.35]All over this town