Living your life by the minutes on your clock Forgetting reality by a mental block You can't stand this and you can't stand that You also know where it's been but never where it's at All you factory girls and you factory boys Whose been winding you up like cheap little toys? Don't you know you suffer from metal fatigue Rust never sleeps in the minor league This is the problem of iron and steel When you are a cog in a clockwork wheel You've set your own course down a well trodden path And made you a cog when you want to laugh I've got metal fatigue