Another night out on the streets
Just like something to eat
If you got it, I’ll take a drink
Keep the cold off so I can sleep
So it’s not a perfect world
I don’t want a perfect world
I just want a place I can call home
I could have a bed tonight and a warm meal
If I go to their church and pray as I kneel
They’re harvesting souls with hunger as bait
Find joy in heaven they say, for now just wait
Even then it’s a race to the goods
Not enough food and not enough beds
Standing in lines just to get what’s left over
From good folks with homes who’ve just cleaned their cupboards
Another night out on the streets
Just like something to eat
If you got it, I’ll take a drink
Keep the cold off so I can sleep
So it’s not a perfect world
I don’t want a perfect world
I just want a place I can call home
Only in the news as a social nuisance
Never as part of a system that makes no sense
Otherwise invisible to all but the police
Always running me from place to place
Most are ill at ease at the mere sight of me
Because no one really wants to see
The farce and the flipside of their privilege
The cost and frailty of their American dream
Another night out on the streets
Just like something to eat
If you got it, I’ll take a drink
Keep the cold off so I can sleep
So it’s not a perfect world
I don’t want a perfect world
I just want a place I can call home
They’ll work me here, they’ll work me there
If I can get there with no car or bus fare
Keeping it short-term lessens the pay
And the parasite temps keep half the take
Jobs are doled out by the lowest bidder
Instead of trying to make life better
Bits of work are for us to fight for
Pitting the poor against the poor
Another night out on the streets
Just like something to eat
If you got it, I’ll take a drink
Keep the cold off so I can sleep
So it’s not a perfect world
I don’t want a perfect world
I just want a place I can call home
Still had a job when my kids were born
On the up and up we got our own home
For a few good years we were all happy
When they took my job, they took my family
The money would never last long enough
Never time to just enjoy our life
So that’s what we mostly fought about
This cruel system broke our hearts
Another night out on the streets
Just like something to eat
If you got it, I’ll take a drink
Keep the cold off so I can sleep
So it’s not a perfect world
I don’t want a perfect world
I just want a place I can call home
My kids don’t know me, likely for the best
Welfare’s better without me in the mix
No money for a meal, yet alone child support
At least they’ll get those checks, for a few months more
Got no say in politics or the economy
That’s for lawyers, bankers and their cronies
Yet for all I do, they got a law
For all their crimes, I’m just a pawn
Another night out on the streets
Just like something to eat
If you got it, I’ll take a drink
Keep the cold off so I can sleep
So it’s not a perfect world
I don’t want a perfect world
I just want a place I can call home
For all my work I got nothing to show
Half a handful of coins and a bundle of photos
The memories of my life are mine alone
My small victories will never be known
By day I’m a beggar, a vagrant, a bum
At night I still dream of better days to come
It’s not just your pocket I'd infringe
Can you spare some social change?
Another night out on the streets
Just like something to eat
If you got it, I’ll take a drink
Keep the cold off so I can sleep
So it’s not a perfect world
I don’t want a perfect world
I just want a place I can call home
