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Album: Roots & Wings |
If Not Now
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Track: 5. Homeless Blues - 1:46 |
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Music and Lyrics by Linda Hirschhorn © 1990
Lead Vocals: Rosalind Glazer, Linda Hirschhorn
Vocal Harmonies: Ellen Robinson, Abbe Lyons, Linda Hirschhorn
Bass: Sam Page
Chorus:
Are you one of the homeless
feeling the lie of the land?
Are you one of the homeless
feeling the lie, feeling the lie,
feeling the lie of the land?
Verse 1:
Pursuit of happiness, our basic right
but not when you've got no place to sleep at night
Under the bridges and doorways, in between cars
but this ain't no camping trip under the stars.
Chorus
Verse 1:
The company let go its chief engineer
when profits dropped to ten billion a year.
The factory fired its packer and sorter
when they found cheap labor just south of the border
Chorus
Verse 3:
When that old earthquake came rumbling through,
knocked down poor homes, some rich ones too,
money rolled in like fog 'cross the bay.
Guess who took most of the money away?
Chorus
Verse 4:
Try as you might to land on your feet,
high rents and low wages keep you on the street
When you are homeless, they call you a bum.
Never mind how you got there or where you come from.
Chorus
Verse 5:
This problem is closer to home than we know,
might even have happened two paychecks ago.
If we don't find new ways to cut up the pie,
any of us could be living that lie.
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© 1990 Linda Hirschhorn, Kehila Publications (BMI) ℗  Oyster Albums, P.O. Box 3929, Berkeley, CA 949703
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ISRC: US-CGH-05-75954 |