King Street - Stu Larsen

Well, I’m wandering these city streets

There’s nothing here for me

All I see is people running round

Buying shit they don’t need

There’s a man begging down on King Street

And he grabs me by the wrist

He says 'Son, you know what the biggest killer in this world is?

It’s not money, not drugs, not guns'

He said, 'It's loneliness

And it’s killing me

Mm, this loneliness

It’s bringing me down'

And he’ll sleep where the darkness falls, he won’t get no curtain calls

And he’s only got one pair of shoes

But he’s got more serenity than the rest of humanity

They’ve been tricked into waiting in queues

And his father is dying, he’s got something inside of him

It makes him feel more wrong than right

And his mother’d be lying if she said she weren’t crying

Herself to sleep every night

Every night

He sees a woman waiting at the station steps

Her conversation fills the air

She’s telling the world about the trouble she’s seen

But no one can hear

And he wanders into a church with its doors wide open

And he’s welcomed in with a half-hearted smile

Some guy tells him he’s found all the answers

To things like money and drugs and guns

Old man says, 'What about this loneliness?

'Cause it’s killing me

Mm, this loneliness

It’s bringing me down'

And I’ll sleep where the darkness falls, I won’t get no curtain calls

And I’ve only got one pair of shoes

But I’ve got more serenity than the rest of humanity

They’ve been tricked into waiting in queues

And my father is dying, he’s got something inside of him

It makes him feel more wrong than right

And my mother’d be lying if she said she weren’t crying

Herself to sleep every night

Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh

And my father is dying, he’s got something inside of him

It makes him feel more wrong than right

And my mother’d be lying if she said she weren’t crying

Herself to sleep every night

And my father is dying, he’s got something inside of him

It makes him feel more wrong than right

And my mother’d be lying if she said she weren’t crying

Herself to sleep every night

Every night

Every night

Every night

Well, I’m wandering these city streets

There’s nothing here for me