Now everyday that I walk outta my building
I see homeless people sleeping
And chillin' on the steps to the apartment that I live in
I'm not saying everyone is a victim
But the people that I live would treat em more like villains then actual citizens
I walk past a man laying in his own vomit
Who gets his food and his garments by digging in the garbage
I beg your pardon mr president
But I'm a resident and since
You've been in office I haven't seen any evidence of things changin'
We go into our iraq and attack
When got people on the streets without a roof over their backs
We've come to accept the homeless as part of our landscape
The money the government wastes could provide them with a safe place
To eat and sleep but we cease to see that
Our own country is based around war power and greed
We got families on the street with no where to go
And the concrete's the only place they have to call home
Nowhere to call your own
Out here in the cold
Wishin' you had a home
Feelin' you're all alone
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Now every face tells a different story a different message
Now how can we judge the book when we don't know the beginning
We don't know what turned 'em to the bottle or started injectin'
We just see dirty clothes and another bum beggin'
Whatta bout the kid who was an addict the second that his mom was pregnant
Or the young girl who was raped and stripped up everything sacred
Who now stands downtown walkin' on the block pacin'
Cause the only way she knows how to make it is gettin' naked
We don't want to face it
And it being the fact that the government created the ghetto and gave it crack
To oppress immigrants and blacks and give 'em more of a set back
Like the last 500years wasn't enough to accomplish that
Now look at the homeless rate and tell me to my face the race
Doesn't play an intricate part in your fate in the united states
Now think about your home and the place that you sleep
And the homeless who only have the concrete
Nowhere to call your home
Out here in the cold
Wishin' you had a home
Feelin' you're all alone
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Now if you wanna see change
Then throw your ones in the air
You think the system that we're living in is not fair
You wanna see change
Then put your ones in the air
Now point it to the ground 'cause change starts right there
You wanna see change
Then put your ones in the air
You think the system that we're living in is not fair
You wanna see change
Then put your ones in the air
Now point 'em to yourself 'cause change starts right there
'Cause change starts right there