James McMurtry "We Can't Make Here" Anymore
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- We Cant Make Here (Anymore)
By: James McMurtry
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This song is so true to the times. Too many American jobs have been lost to offshore outsourcing, growth of illegal immigration and economic crisis. I wouldnt know where to begin to fix the crisis that we are in now, however I think that bringing our jobs back home would be the best stimulus package.
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"We Can't Make it Here"
Lyrics
Vietnam Vet with a cardboard sign
Sitting there by the left turn line
Flag on the wheelchair flapping in the breeze
One leg missing, both hands free
No one's paying much mind to him
The V.A. budget's stretched so thin
And there's more comin' home from the Mideast war
We can't make it here anymore
That big ol' building was the textile mill
It fed our kids and it paid our bills
But they turned us out and they closed the doors
We can't make it here anymore
See all those pallets piled up on the loading dock
They're just gonna set there till they rot
'Cause there's nothing to ship, nothing to pack
Just busted concrete and rusted tracks
Empty storefronts around the square
There's a needle in the gutter and glass everywhere
You don't come down here 'less you're looking to score
We can't make it here anymore
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 living in cars
Minimum wage won't pay for a roof, won't pay for a 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
High school girl with a bourgeois dream
Just like the pictures 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 it's way too late to just say no
You can't make it here anymore
Now I'm stocking shirts in the Wal-Mart store
Just like the ones we made before
'Cept this one came from Singapore
I guess we can't make it here anymore
Should I hate a people for the shade of their skin
Or the shape of their eyes or the shape I'm in
Should I hate 'em for having our jobs today
No I hate the men sent the jobs away
I can see them all now, they haunt my dreams
All lily white and squeaky clean
They've never known want, they'll never know need
Their sh@# don't stink and their kids won't bleed
Their kids won't bleed in the da$% little war
And we can't make it here anymore
Will work for food
Will die for oil
Will kill for power and to us the spoils
The billionaires get to pay less tax
The working poor get to fall through the cracks
Let 'em eat jellybeans let 'em eat cake
Let 'em eat sh$%, whatever it takes
They can join the Air Force, or join the Corps
If they can't make it here anymore
And that's how it is
That's what we got
If the president wants to admit it or not
You can read it in the paper
Read it on the wall
Hear it on the wind
If you're listening at all
Get out of that limo
Look us in the eye
Call us on the cell phone
Tell us all why
In Dayton, Ohio
Or Portland, Maine
Or a cotton gin out on the great high plains
That's done closed down along with the school
And the hospital and the swimming pool
Dust devils dance in the noonday heat
There's rats in the alley
And trash in the street
Gang graffiti on a boxcar door
We can't make it here anymore
Music and lyrics © 2004 by James McMurtry
Truer words were never sung. Thank you, James McMurtry, for creating an anthem for the disaffected, disappearing American middle class.
Listening to these lyrics, I seem to hear, a little bit of "Woody" in the back of my ear. I got this "link" from a Tom Rush letter, and now I'm just hoping that the country gets better. ...oh, and by the way, I really loved the song!
America's new national anthem.
I agree C.W., maybe we need to take it back, because someone's gonna have to manage things...LOL! This was great, what a fantastic song. A special thanks to somncountry for sharing this GREAT video. Mark
Awesome!!! Very good music and song. Thank you for posting.
Grandma Mary
Hope this song can bring change someday. Thanks
Outstanding... thank you tons for sharing this Rodney!
The words really hit home ... which is great - in a pathetic way.
Hope this song can help to bring real change in America. Good work.
Amen brother you hit so right
had to come back here love this song....all of this IS a fact JACK.....hmmm yeah....oh great don't even know how we're getting by now other then...our belts been tight for years...werse now....lololol with a prayer and a dream....good luck to all....shit happens....
Very Very Nice THANKS for SHARING
Greatest song ever! SO TRUE! SO SAD!!!!!!!!😢😂
Great video. Good job!
Had heard the song before, but thank oldcountrytunes and somencountry for sharing and you for reminding me what a sadly true statement it is on the plight of the working class in America today.
A great video accompanying a great song.
All the stars to you, friend.
Mattie
you hit the nail on the head with that one. Fav. Somncountry invited me. Mary
They gave all our good stable jobs to Chindia and surrounded us with box stores and cookie cutter restaurants.
How did you guys feel this last 4th when the fireworks where going off? Didn't feel the same like it used too- was a scary feeling.
YES!!
What a great video*****A sad one tho because it so true!
Thank you oldcountrytunes for sending.
great video love the lyrics, 5*****
thanks
rod somecountry
love is all
Awesome ! 5 stars
Awesome song. So true. LOL.
Great video!!
5*****
so true.
This was a really good song really enjoyed it....awesome even...thanks Mark for posting it...really good
I Think this world is in for alot more, than most of us intend, even with hope we can only make it so far. A dollar dont make it anymore, ppl are going out of their way to try to make things better for their family but they just end up in jail, not cause there bad people, there just trying to make it. ppl starving, robbing banks, doing anything and everything,
We pay double the money to have things shipped to the USA, from China, when they were or could been made in USA.
God bless US
Great video 😊
Gloversville, N.Y.
wow, how true. lost my job after 26 years. had a total hip replacement. after doc let me go back to work was let go because my job was terminated. i had trained my replacements ,,,,,,,, oh well. whats a man to do other than laugh and play music.
No Problem! =)
You got that shit right!
Freakin Awesome video! Great job
true
hey buddy you sure can put a true life video together and a true job you did with this is that your son thats in the car and putting a neckless on that girl just wondering great video
what the fuck are we supposed to do for jobs?
@Mowac It's both partie threw and threw N.W.O. either way either by war or the welfare state
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