[Intro: Krautrock male lead, counting in] Eins, zwei, plug it in [Verse 1: Krautrock male lead, raw and loud] Coal town in the Ruhr at the edge of the pit, one road and one bar Band in the back with a borrowed amp and a beat-up guitar Every Friday we plug it in and the whole town dims Butcher's fridge goes quiet and the lights go thin Pit boss up the hill on the phone with the grid Says the winding gear slows down when we start to play, and it did So he sends a man down with a letter and a seal Says the power's off on Friday, and that's the deal [Pre-Chorus: Krautrock male lead] Pull the plug and kill the light We'll be back on Friday night [Chorus: Krautrock male lead, full force] We pull more power than the mine Every Friday, every time Throw the switch and kill the line We pull more power than the mine [Verse 2: Krautrock male lead, faster] Friday comes, they throw the switch, and the whole hill goes black Crowd is standing in the dark and nobody is going back Then a miner with a truck battery comes walking through the door Then another and another, then a hundred, maybe more Headlamps on their helmets pointing at our little stage Clamps on every terminal, we're plugged into their wage Twelve volts off of every truck that hauls the coal away Wire it to the amp, and let the whole pit play [Pre-Chorus: Krautrock male lead] Pull the plug and kill the light We'll be back on Friday night [Chorus: Krautrock male lead, full force] We pull more power than the mine Every Friday, every time Throw the switch and kill the line We pull more power than the mine [Bridge: Krautrock male lead, bass-line takeover, the bass guitar carries the riff alone] Bass, take the riff, take it down to the shaft Every hammer in the pit is gonna hear it and laugh Pit boss on the hill with his windows all dark Only light in the valley is our little spark Take it low, take it slow, let the coal seam hear Every man who ever swung a pick is standing here [Verse 3: Krautrock male lead, triumphant] Monday morning, pit boss comes walking to the bar Says the trucks won't start, every battery's dead in the yard Says the coal is sitting still and the trucks won't run Every battery in the valley, y'all drained every one Miner at the counter says, boss, the answer's pretty plain Give us back our Friday, and the trucks will run again [Chorus: Krautrock male lead, full force] We pull more power than the mine Every Friday, every time Throw the switch and kill the line We pull more power than the mine [Outro: Krautrock male lead] Plug it in, plug it in [End]
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