Minimum Wage Is A Gateway Drug chords by The Dillinger Escape Plan

Intro:

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Verse:

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Yeah I'm stealing cigarettes Selling them off to friends for rent
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Plus a paycheck and still in debt I'm asking, how could it be?
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I know they know I'm beneath them Even homeless assholes know my name
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Now it's Urban Flight or cell for the night Y'know it's all the same

Pre-chorus:

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One can tell themselves About when going gets tough
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But determination Just ain't enough
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When over-time defines your life


Chorus:

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This American Me
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This American Me


Verse 2 (same as first):

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Tradition tells us home own But the timecards saying no go
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Now the suits are talking foreclose From sea to shining sea
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Time was a war time economy Was a silver lining to tragedy
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But even those with homes are now those alone In the land of the free


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I asked for nothing And I got it in spades
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Worked for a living and I earned a cage
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Now they say I look old for my age


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This American me
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This American me