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James McMurtry - We Can't Make It Here
有一个越战老兵拿着个纸招牌，
坐在左转线旁边，
他的轮椅上的旗帜在风中飘扬，
Theres a Vietnam Vet with a cardboard sign
（他）失去了一条腿和双手。
Sitting there by the left turn line
没有人关系他，
The flag on his wheelchair flapping in the breeze
退伍军人管理局的预算太紧张了，
One leg missing and both hands free
现在从中东战争回来的人更多，
我们不能再在这里生存了。
No ones paying much mind to him
那栋大楼是纺织场，
The V.A. budgets just stretched so thin
养活我们的孩子，支付我们的账单。
And now theres more coming back from the Mideast war
但现在他们把我们赶出去，关上了门，
We cant make it here anymore
因此我们不能再在这里生活了。
你看到那盘货堆在装货区了吗？
And that big ol building was the textile mill
它们只会在那里直到腐烂，
That fed our kids and it paid our bills
因为没什么好运的，没什么好收拾的。
But they turned us out and they closed the doors
只有破碎的混凝土和生锈的轨道。
'Cause we cant make it here anymore
广场周围是空店面，
排水沟里有根针，到处都是玻璃，
You see those pallets piled up on the loading dock
你不来这里除非你想得分。
Theyre just gonna sit there til they rot
我们不能再在这里生活了。
Cause theres nothing to ship, nothing to pack
酒吧还在营业，但人不够，
Just busted concrete and rusted tracks
小费很少，收据也很少，
酒保没什么好说的。
Empty storefronts around the square
人一天比一天少，
Theres a needle in the gutter and glass everywhere
有人刷爆了所有的信用卡，
You dont come down here unless youre looking to score
有人打两份工，住在车里。
We cant make it here anymore
最低工资不会付房租，不会付酒钱。
如果你有证据的话，你自己先试试吧c.e.o先生，
The bars still open but man its slow
看看在你的店里做兼职
The tip jars light and the registers low
每小时5.15美元能走多远。
The bartender dont have much to say
我跟你打赌你肯定在这里过不下去了。
The regular crowd gets thinner each day
还有一个有中产阶级梦想的高中女孩，
就像她在自助洗衣机的地板上发现的
Some have maxed out all their credit cards
杂志上的照片一样，
Some are working two jobs and living in cars
一个有孩子的女人可以忘记一切。
Minimum wage wont pay for a roof, wont pay for a drink
可如果她怀孕了，她会怎么做？
If you gotta have proof just try it yourself Mr. C.E.O.
忘记事业，忘记学业?
See how far 5.15 an hour will go
她靠信仰活下去吗？靠希望活下去吗？
Take a part time job at one your stores
求神明保佑或成瘾，
I bet you cant make it here anymore
反悔时已经来不及了。
你不能再在这生活下去了。
And theres a high school girl with a bourgeois dream
现在我在沃尔玛超市里储存衬衫，
Just like the pictures in the magazine
和我们以前做的一样，
She found on the floor of the laundromat
除了这个来自新加坡，
A woman with kids can forget all that
我想我们不能再呆在这里了。
我应该因一个人的肤色而讨厌他吗？
If she comes up pregnant whatll she do
或者因他们眼睛的形状、或者他们的外形？
Forget the career and forget about school
我应该因他们的工作讨厌他吗？
Can she live on faith? Live on hope?
不，我讨厌把工作赶走的人。
High on Jesus or hooked on ****
我现在可以看到他们，他们萦绕在我的梦里。
When its way too late to just say no
全身洁白干干净净，
You cant make it here anymore
他们从来不知道想要什么，他们从来不知道需要什么，
他们不会发臭，他们的孩子不会流血，
Now Im stocking shirts in the Wal-Mart store
他们的孩子不会在这该死的战争中流血，
Just like the ones we made before
我们不能再在这里生活下去了。
Cept this one came from Singapore
啊啊啊哈啊啊啊哈啊哈啊哈
I guess we cant make it here anymore
我会为食物而工作吗，我会为石油而死吗，
为权利为战利品而杀戮吗？
Should I hate a people for the shade of their skin
亿万富翁可以少交税，
Or the shape of their eyes or the shape Im in
穷苦的工薪阶层却被忽视了。
Should I hate em for having our jobs today
让他们吃豆粒糖，让他们吃蛋糕，
No I hate the men sent the jobs away
让他们吃shi去吧，不惜一切代价，
如果他们不能在这里生存下去，
I can see them all now, they haunt my dreams
他们可以加入空军或加入军队。
All lily white and squeaky clean
事情就是这样，我们就是这样。
Theyve never known want, theyll never know need
不管总统愿不愿意承认，
Their **** dont stink and their kids wont bleed
你可以在报纸上读到，在墙上读到。
Their kids wont bleed in their damn little war
如果你在听的话，请在风中聆听，
And we cant make it here anymore
请下车看看我们的眼睛，
打电话告诉我们原因，
啊啊啊哈啊啊啊哈啊哈啊哈
在俄亥俄州的代顿或缅因州的波特兰，
Will I work for food, will I die for oil
或在高原上的轧棉机。
Will kill for power and to us the spoils
随着学校关闭，
The billionaires get to pay less tax
还有医院和游泳池，
The working poor get to fall through the cracks
沙尘暴在中午的热浪中舞蹈。
巷子里有老鼠，街上有垃圾，
So let em eat jellybeans let em eat cake
货车门上有帮派涂鸦，
Let em eat ****, whatever it takes
我们不能再在这生活下去了。
They can join the Air Force or join the Corps
If they cant make it here anymore
So thats how it is, thats 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 youre 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
Thats done closed down along with the school
And the hospital and the swimming pool
Dust devils dance in the noonday heat
Theres rats in the alley and trash in the street
Gang graffiti on a boxcar door
We cant make it here anymore
James McMurtry - We Can't Make It Here
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