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Youth for Minimum Wage

from Dark Days by Streetlight Cardiacs

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chant - Work! x 28

Phil - Got a job now, workin over time / two years gone what a waste of my life / straight to work when I turned legal age / sold my youth for minimum wage / straight to work! ??????????

Evan - At the tender young age of 16 years / they strip you of your dreams and submit your worst fears / come to find all the horrible stories are true / they came for everyone else and they're coming for you / I can tell this truly, cause they did me the same / they're the ones pulling the strings and we're playing their game / cause think about it, why would they get in the dirt? / why would they feel pain when we could hurt?

Phil - ?????? / get a job and have to shave my head yeah / can't afford the cost of living this way / can't afford the cost of living today yeah

chorus - Got a job now, workin over time / two years gone what a waste of my life / straight to work when I turned legal age / that's why I sold my youth for minimum wage

Phil - ?????

Evan - The Golden Arches were built on the backs of slaves / "a billion burgers sold", but who's getting paid? / Wal Mart's plan: devastate the little man / then set their greedy eyes on low income fams / hypocritical managers, preaching maturity / when I could teach them something about responsibility / after five and a half years spent bashing the Big A / I bet the late Joe Albertsons is rolling in his grave

Phil - ?????

chorus

chant - Work! x 16

Evan - Come on baby, rise up / take my hand lets protest real life / the ordinary, the plain, monotonous, mundane / hypnotic 9 to 5, lets start a picket line / this one goes out to all the abused / the beaten up, the broken down, the bloodied and bruised / single moms working double shifts every day / just to come home to a stack of bills that they can't pay / grown men with their pride, laying down their lives / the kids pushed into it, trying to fight / cause they still like you the best: back broken, bent over / man you give and then you give and then you die

chorus - Got a job now, workin over time / two years gone what a waste of my life / straight to work when I turned legal age / that's why I sold my soul / got a job now, workin over time / two years gone what a waste of my life / straight to work when I turned legal age / that's why I sold my youth for minimum wage

chant - Work x 17

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from Dark Days, released January 1, 2007

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