Fuck Your Factory and Your Attitude - alto saxophone - 3:20

Score - 8.5 x 11

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**This piece is also available in the NewMusicShelf Anthology of New Music: Alto Saxophone, Vol. 1**

In the fall of 2018, I was looking through boxes of old papers to decide what to keep and what to get rid of. I came across some lyrics that I wrote while I was working sixty hours a week at two jobs, which were at a factory and a retail store. I was in my early twenties at the time, and the lyrics were meant to be used for a song with my old hardcore punk band. However, the band dispersed before they had a chance to be used. I posted them on social media because they still resonate today. Saxophonist, Alan Theisen, expressed to me that he would love if I wrote a solo piece for him with the same title, inspired by the lyrics. And so, I did! Here are the lyrics that inspired the piece:

You treat me like I’m stupid, like I’m lower than you I hate this job, I hate this place
I’m losing my life, I’m long in the face
You treat me like I’m a bum

You act like I am fucking dumb, so

FUCK YOUR FACTORY
 AND YOUR ATTITUDE FUCK YOUR FACTORY

I don’t hate you, but you hate me There’s no reason that this should be You talk about people behind their backs Making up lies not based on facts There’s more to life than this job
There’s more to life than this town
I’m not a button on a machine
My morale keeps going down

Fuck Your Factory & Your Attitude was written for Alan Theisen and was composed during the first three weeks of January, 2019