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James McMurtry We Can' t Make It Here |
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Theres a Vietnam Vet with a cardboard sign |
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Sitting there by the left turn line |
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The flag on his wheelchair flapping in the breeze |
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One leg missing and both hands free |
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No ones paying much mind to him |
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The V. A. budgets just stretched so thin |
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And now theres more coming back from the Mideast war |
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We cant make it here anymore |
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And that big ol building was the textile mill |
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That fed our kids and it paid our bills |
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But they turned us out and they closed the doors |
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' Cause we cant make it here anymore |
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You see those pallets piled up on the loading dock |
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Theyre just gonna sit there til they rot |
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Cause theres nothing to ship, nothing to pack |
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Just busted concrete and rusted tracks |
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Empty storefronts around the square |
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Theres a needle in the gutter and glass everywhere |
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You dont come down here unless youre looking to score |
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We cant make it here anymore |
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The bars still open but man its slow |
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The tip jars light and the registers low |
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The bartender dont have much to say |
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The regular crowd gets thinner each day |
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Some have maxed out all their credit cards |
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Some are working two jobs and living in cars |
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Minimum wage wont pay for a roof, wont pay for a drink |
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If you gotta have proof just try it yourself Mr. C. E. O. |
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See how far 5. 15 an hour will go |
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Take a part time job at one your stores |
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I bet you cant make it here anymore |
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And theres a high school girl with a bourgeois dream |
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Just like the pictures in the magazine |
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She found on the floor of the laundromat |
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A woman with kids can forget all that |
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If she comes up pregnant whatll she do |
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Forget the career and forget about school |
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Can she live on faith? Live on hope? |
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High on Jesus or hooked on dope |
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When its way too late to just say no |
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You cant make it here anymore |
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Now Im stocking shirts in the WalMart store |
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Just like the ones we made before |
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Cept this one came from Singapore |
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I guess we cant make it here anymore |
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Should I hate a people for the shade of their skin |
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Or the shape of their eyes or the shape Im in |
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Should I hate em for having our jobs today |
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No I hate the men sent the jobs away |
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I can see them all now, they haunt my dreams |
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All lily white and squeaky clean |
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Theyve never known want, theyll never know need |
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Their shit dont stink and their kids wont bleed |
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Their kids wont bleed in their damn little war |
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And we cant make it here anymore |
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a a ā hā a a ā hā ā hā ā hā |
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Will I work for food, will I die for oil |
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Will kill for power and to us the spoils |
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The billionaires get to pay less tax |
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The working poor get to fall through the cracks |
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So let em eat jellybeans let em eat cake |
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Let em eat shit, whatever it takes |
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They can join the Air Force or join the Corps |
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If they cant make it here anymore |
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So thats how it is, thats what we got |
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If the president wants to admit it or not |
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You can read it in the paper, read it on the wall |
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Hear it on the wind if youre listening at all |
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Get out of that limo, look us in the eye |
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Call us on the cell phone tell us all why |
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In Dayton Ohio or Portland Maine |
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Or a cotton gin out on the great high plains |
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Thats done closed down along with the school |
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And the hospital and the swimming pool |
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Dust devils dance in the noonday heat |
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Theres rats in the alley and trash in the street |
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Gang graffiti on a boxcar door |
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We cant make it here anymore |
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James McMurtry We Can' t Make It Here |
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wǎng yì yīn yuè: tīng hǎi làng jiào de shēng yīn... zhuān yè gē cí shí jiān zhóu duì bù zhǔn |
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