Minimun Wage-Lila Downs

[ti:Minimun Wage] [ar:Lila Downs] [al:En Paris - Live À FIP] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Minimun Wage - Lila Downs [00:20.95]Traveled seven hundred miles [00:23.64]Crossed the border to the States [00:26.60]With a plastic bottle running [00:29.11]Cross the desert in a shake [00:31.45]Come to English only country [00:34.33]Hidin' from the minutemen [00:37.00]Come to make this place my home [00:39.72]Run a long long way from then [00:42.25] [00:42.77]Story of a lifetime [00:45.58] [00:47.10]For the minimum wage [00:49.65] [00:52.76]Well they chased me through the desert [00:55.60]Then the agents strapped me down [00:58.33]Then they ask me why in Spanish [01:00.56] [01:01.13]Why you keep on comin' back [01:02.89] [01:03.73]When I left my dad in Jersey [01:06.28]And my sister in Des Moines [01:08.93]They've been workin' in this country [01:11.65]Pickin' lettuce washing floors [01:14.04] [01:14.74]Story of a lifetime [01:17.15] [01:19.17]For the minimum wage [01:21.58] [01:24.80]Well they raised me to eight dollars [01:27.66]'Cause I washed the dishes fast [01:30.42]Well the boss he got me workin' [01:32.96]On the porch and in the back [01:35.49]Then I wash the dish and rinse it [01:38.39]Then I go home late and sleep [01:40.97]Well I need to be awake now [01:43.47]'Cause I walk out in my sleep [01:46.03]When I see that black van comin' [01:49.07]Then I know I'm sure to run [01:51.48]Goddamn them agents caught me [01:54.95]Cuffed me on the spot [01:56.44]For the minimum wage [01:59.17] [02:28.82]No one forced the boss to hire me [02:31.83]But it's nearly been fifteen [02:34.49]When I left my baby cryin' [02:37.18]With a promise in my skin [02:39.59]On the outskirts of L A [02:42.38]I recite a native poem [02:44.79]Million hands ten thousand years [02:47.63]It's the season for the crop [02:50.09]It's my people doin' the pickin' [02:52.97]In the valley of the dolls [02:55.61]It's a decent job to work at [02:58.50]Any day I'll take this job [03:00.74]Ethiopian Colombian Pakistani Cantonese [03:05.88] [03:06.43]Every man that I run into [03:09.13]All the kitchens on the strip [03:11.47]And they're pluggin' in them hours [03:14.12] [03:14.91]Smilin' in their dreams [03:17.21]They're a long long way from home now [03:19.60]But they lookin' to be free [03:22.20]California Alabama and Missouri Oregon [03:27.57]They just workin' like their fathers were [03:30.57]A long long time ago [03:32.84]For the minimum wage [03:34.76] [03:36.27]For for for for the minimum wage [03:46.94] [03:49.41]For for for for for for the minimum wage [03:54.21]It's a bumpy road to ride in [03:57.08]But I'll take it anytime [03:59.53]It's a bumpy road to take [04:02.50]But I'll take it anyday [04:04.98]It's a bumpy road to ride [04:07.82]But I'll take it anytime [04:11.89] [04:12.45]For the minimum wage