We Can't Make It Here Any More

The bar's still open but man it's slow the tip jar's light and the register's low the bartender don't have much to say the regular crowd gets thinner each day some have maxed out all their credit cards some are working two jobs and livin' in cars minimum wage won't pay for a roof, won't pay for drink if you gotta have proof just try it yourself mr CEO see how far $5.15 an hour will go take a part time job at one of your stores bet you can't make it here anymore There's a high school girl with bourgeois dream just like the pictuers in the magazine she found on the floor of the laundromat a woman with kids can forget all that if she comes up pregnant what'll she do? forget the career, forget about school can she live on faith? live on hope? high on jesus or hooked on dope when its way too late to just say no you can't make it here anymore more here: http://www.counterpunch.org/mcmurtry09302005.html

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