Minimum Wage

There's a full moon taking up the sky

And a red eye flight that won't collide

With the clouds that roll and pirouette

Even though they are aligned with it

Oh the air smells like a cheap bouquet

In the night, with hints of ocean's grey

And the chill behind my ears do say

This september's near the end

Minimum wage took my baby far away

See a jug of milk, a dozen eggs

Laid lovingly in a paper nest

By a wood bee mum in a blue bonnet

Now they all will read like epithets

Minimum wage took my baby far away

Took my baby far away

Don't feel a thing in the back of her car

You little child don't you know where you are?

Counting the voids where there should have been stars

So the rain makes small puddles of feet

Three sheets to the wind indiscrete

And the moon, that moon, that goddamn moon!

Still taking up room in the sky