For every child there dawns the day,
Wonder where they come
Why is the sky so pink tonight?

How fast do clouds fly by
And so you come up with stories you tell,
Eyes are open wide
When you tell them about the sky´n
All that beneath resides

There is a factory clouds are made in
They make ´em big and blue
The Factory eats you,
it swallows you whole
It fills you with conceit and never lets you leave
If you ever dream, at the end of the day
That you´re gonna live as a free man
There's no hook, no sinker, no line
And you will never leave
The Cloud Factory

If you join the same brigade,
That I invent when I was young
You will never see beyond the skyline of this town

Take my word, my son and run!
While your dreams fly free!
Have them write my story down
Like silence breaking sound!

There is a factory clouds are made in
They make ´em big and blue
The Factory eats you,
it swallows you whole
It fills you with conceit and never lets you leave
If you ever dream, at the end of the day
That you´re gonna live as a free man
There's no hook, no sinker, no line
And you will never leave
The Cloud Factory

Some of you never leave
You believe what you see
You follow the lead (whoo oooh)
But the eyes they deceive
There is nothing to see
But Cloud Factory keratins
oooh whooo!

But hey!
Isn't it fun at the end of the day
When everyone looks like me!
Swallowing pints of stale alcohol
Having dreams where I would be without the factory!

If you ever dream, at the end of the day
That you´re gonna live as a free man
There's no hook, no sinker, no line
And you will never leave
The Cloud Factory

There is a factory clouds are made in
They make ´em big and blue
The Factory eats you,
it swallows you whole
It fills you with conceit and never lets you leave
If you ever dream, at the end of the day
That you´re gonna live as a free man
I want to shout Just as you find in case if you never leave
The Cloud Factory


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    Definitely not the only interpretation, but this could be about gamedev. Kid is happy playing video games and wonders how they're made, then much later he gets his big chance to join a game studio, where he learns "how sausage is made" and as the crunch time work consumes his life he grows to resent his craft and warns others to avoid the same fate.

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