Story Behind The Song
I went to a wedding in San Fransisco and took my dog out at 3 am and tripped all over the sleeping homeless people on my way to the Union Station Park.
Song Description
Homeless people in the United States
| Song Length |
5:00 |
Genre |
Folk - Alternative, Unique - Unclassified |
| Tempo |
Non 4/4 |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Peaceful, Poignant |
Subject |
Politics, You, Yours |
| Similar Artists |
Bob Dylan, Joan Baez |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Somebody's Child
Laurie and Rick Williams (c) 2002
It's 4 AM and the streets are still -
store's locked up - I've some time to kill
Just takin' in the noise of the quiet,
before morning wakes to the riot.
The gods are tender and the winds blow mild
but huddled in the doorway lies somebody's child
a nameless heap of rags and grime
that has no sense of passing time
chorus:
Somebody's child has no home but the ground
somebody's child no one wanted around
somebody's child had a name now it's gone
somebody's child had a life that's gone wrong
one wrong turn and the world turns cruel
that somebody's child could be you
V2
It's 5 AM and I'm wide awake
that somebody's child was he just a mistake
are those somebody's children that sleep outside buildin's
Where's their Mothers or Fathers or Sisters or Brothers?
Chorus repeat
Bridge
Just a heap with no name society's shame
Like weeds growin' wild, they're all somebody's child
repeat chorus
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