Story Behind The Song

Joy was a homeless woman Sara Hickman befriended on the streets of Dallas, TX. She used Joy's name as a double entendre because even though Joy was homeless, she was one of the happiest people Sara had ever met.

Song Description

Joy was a homeless woman Sara Hickman befriended on the streets of Dallas, TX. She used Joy's name as a double entendre because even though Joy was homeless, she was one of the happiest people Sara had ever met. This song starts acoustically and has a terrific build with drums and strings.

Lyrics

Living On The Streets (Joy)
Words and Music by Sara Hickman

a grocery cart for a car
a broken curb for a pillow
no house, no kids, no pets, no bills
just a husband with an angry scar

her face was kissed by the night
i'm a slice of the moon
i gave her my toaster oven
on a frozen afternoon

her mother named her "joy"
it was the last word from her lips
how strange a woman with not much more than a name
can find such happiness...

CH: living on the streets she don't mind
everyone she meets has no time
to be kind
i can search for days up and down
so afraid she won't come around
and i find
when i stop looking
there is joy to be found

she would visit our dumpster
collecting empty bottles of beer
i gave her an electric blanket
on the hottest day of the year

joy can shop in the rain
she makes dinner in the snow
joy finds things in places
i'm too scared to go

chorus

bridge:

nothing is hers, she says
"there is nothing... we really own..."
and she ignore the fences
society's sown...

summer fell into fall
fall grew into spring
there was never another word from joy
and i knew it could only mean...

Playlist Creator	Playlist Name	Date Added
Penny Towers	favorite songs of humanity	3/7/2012