Song Description

Sung form the perspective of a homeless person

Lyrics

Keep me from the cold in the concrete winter
Catch my shiver in the shadow of the streetlight
See me to the shelter of the sandy summer
Hold me through the homeless night

Somewhere deep inside I remember where I came from
But it's vague and it's so long ago
Your cherished yesterdays I wish that I could claim one
They're all the same to me as far as I know

Keep me from the cold in the concrete winter
Catch my shiver in the shadow of the streetlight
See me to the shelter of the sandy summer
Hold me through the homeless night

I know the parkades, the lanes, the liquor stores
I know these streets from the coastline to the freeway
And I know business hours and leather boots on both ends of my body
Best I know an insult from a mile away

Keep me from the cold in the concrete winter
Catch my shiver in the shadow of the streetlight
See me to the shelter of the sandy summer
Hold me through the homeless night

Yesterday's disease is the highway of tomorrow
Children bear our grinding faces in their shrinking dreams
Sleeping roll and shopping cart
Here's a bottle for your sorrow
And a toast to your father who you've never seen

And a stranger my child to thee
I'm a stranger my child to thee

Keep me from the cold in the concrete winter
Catch my shiver in the shadow of the streetlight
See me to the shelter of the sandy summer
Heal me through the homeless night