Story Behind The Song

Street Kids

Lyrics

Is it still Christmas in Bourke Street, do the lights still shine bright
Faces peering through windows, reflecting the light
It?s just another day in December, another lonely night on the street
And she asks me, Is it still Christmas in Bourke Street

Friday night she sits all alone down on the steps of a city station
Flinders street clocks up above across the road from Young and Jacksons
She says she is one of the crowd but in her heart you know she?s dreaming
Tells me stories we laugh about but in her mind she?s really screaming

Is it still Christmas in Bourke Street, do the lights still shine bright
Faces peering through windows, reflecting the light
It?s just another day in December, another lonely night on the street
And she asks me, is it still Christmas in Bourke Street

Mum?s and Dad?s with kids in tow, they just keep on walking by
They don?t know the stories they pass like a Tram on route to the Shrine
Some they talk in quiet whispers behind an open hand
If they?d only stop and listen then maybe they?d understand

Is it still Christmas in Bourke Street, do the lights still shine bright
Faces peering through windows, reflecting the light
It?s just another day in December, another lonely night on the street
And she asks me, Is it still Christmas in Bourke Street

Birthday?s don?t matter to her
She don?t care anymore
But she still keeps on asking

Is it still Christmas in Bourke Street, do the lights still shine bright
Faces peering through windows, reflecting the light
It?s just another day in December, another lonely night on the street
And she asks me

Is it still Christmas in Bourke Street, do the lights still shine bright
Faces peering through windows, reflecting the light
It?s just another day in December, another lonely night on the street
And she asks me

Is it still Christmas in Bourke Street
Is it still Christmas in Bourke Street
Is it still Christmas in Bourke Street
Is it still Christmas in Bourke Street