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[00:05.70]James McMurtry - We Can't Make It Here
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[00:25.08]Theres a Vietnam Vet with a cardboard sign
[00:27.92]Sitting there by the left turn line
[00:30.80]The flag on his wheelchair flapping in the breeze
[00:34.04]One leg missing and both hands free
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[00:40.51]No ones paying much mind to him
[00:43.14]The V.A. budgets just stretched so thin
[00:45.83]And now theres more coming back from the Mideast war
[00:48.62]We cant make it here anymore
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[00:56.54]And that big ol building was the textile mill
[00:59.48]That fed our kids and it paid our bills
[01:02.26]But they turned us out and they closed the doors
[01:05.40]'Cause we cant make it here anymore
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[01:13.26]You see those pallets piled up on the loading dock
[01:16.01]Theyre just gonna sit there til they rot
[01:19.09]Cause theres nothing to ship, nothing to pack
[01:22.23]Just busted concrete and rusted tracks
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[01:25.76]Empty storefronts around the square
[01:28.05]Theres a needle in the gutter and glass everywhere
[01:31.04]You dont come down here unless youre looking to score
[01:34.07]We cant make it here anymore
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[01:47.82]The bars still open but man its slow
[01:50.76]The tip jars light and the registers low
[01:53.64]The bartender dont have much to say
[01:56.34]The regular crowd gets thinner each day
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[02:02.76]Some have maxed out all their credit cards
[02:05.69]Some are working two jobs and living in cars
[02:08.93]Minimum wage wont pay for a roof, wont pay for a drink
[02:11.87]If you gotta have proof just try it yourself Mr. C.E.O.
[02:17.04]See how far 5.15 an hour will go
[02:20.13]Take a part time job at one your stores
[02:23.31]I bet you cant make it here anymore
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[03:00.62]And theres a high school girl with a bourgeois dream
[03:03.60]Just like the pictures in the magazine
[03:06.40]She found on the floor of the laundromat
[03:09.58]A woman with kids can forget all that
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[03:13.42]If she comes up pregnant whatll she do
[03:15.26]Forget the career and forget about school
[03:18.09]Can she live on faith? Live on hope?
[03:21.19]High on Jesus or hooked on dope
[03:24.08]When its way too late to just say no
[03:27.01]You cant make it here anymore
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[03:46.08]Now Im stocking shirts in the Wal-Mart store
[03:49.02]Just like the ones we made before
[03:51.61]Cept this one came from Singapore
[03:54.19]I guess we cant make it here anymore
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[04:04.36]Should I hate a people for the shade of their skin
[04:06.15]Or the shape of their eyes or the shape Im in
[04:08.74]Should I hate em for having our jobs today
[04:10.93]No I hate the men sent the jobs away
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[04:17.30]I can see them all now, they haunt my dreams
[04:19.59]All lily white and squeaky clean
[04:22.38]Theyve never known want, theyll never know need
[04:25.32]Their shit dont stink and their kids wont bleed
[04:28.30]Their kids wont bleed in their damn little war
[04:31.39]And we cant make it here anymore
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[04:49.30]啊啊啊哈啊啊啊哈啊哈啊哈
[05:07.78]Will I work for food, will I die for oil
[05:10.61]Will kill for power and to us the spoils
[05:13.90]The billionaires get to pay less tax
[05:16.16]The working poor get to fall through the cracks
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[05:22.47]So let em eat jellybeans let em eat cake
[05:24.87]Let em eat shit, whatever it takes
[05:27.40]They can join the Air Force or join the Corps
[05:30.49]If they cant make it here anymore
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[05:49.81]So thats how it is, thats what we got
[05:52.20]If the president wants to admit it or not
[05:54.94]You can read it in the paper, read it on the wall
[05:58.22]Hear it on the wind if youre listening at all
[06:01.12]Get out of that limo, look us in the eye
[06:03.75]Call us on the cell phone tell us all why
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[06:07.64]In Dayton Ohio or Portland Maine
[06:09.73]Or a cotton gin out on the great high plains
[06:12.41]Thats done closed down along with the school
[06:15.50]And the hospital and the swimming pool
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[06:19.48]Dust devils dance in the noonday heat
[06:21.52]Theres rats in the alley and trash in the street
[06:24.12]Gang graffiti on a boxcar door
[06:26.86]We cant make it here anymore
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[06:42.74]James McMurtry - We Can't Make It Here
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