Michigan Hammers - Protomartyr

From a pious west

To the wooded north

Where the real freaks live

In the east

They’re beating out a line

They’re kicking in a hole

They’re beating out a line

Kicking in a hole

In the sides of the brazen bull

A calf of gold

Champagne bath half-full

Dignity or toil

Syndicate or gang

Rose and thorn

Not all of them on pills

A chant from the end of the bar

Being reborn

In this soil, in this ground

The Michigan hammers

Are on their way

A chant from the end of the bar

Not all of them on pills

Break apart the surface lot

What’s been torn down

Can be rebuilt

What has been rebuilt

Can be destroyed

Off the coast of Veracruz

They threw them overboard

Some made it to shore

What a hardy mule

To work without reward

Carrying the load

Till they drop amongst the stones

They sleep beneath the waves

Extraction of a life for debt

Extraction of a life for debt

Michigan hammers

Michigan hammers

Michigan hammers

Michigan hammers

Beating out a line

Kicking in a hole

In the side

Brazen bull

Calf of gold

Dignity or toil