Macklemore — City Dont Sleep

[Intro] "I don't feel there's any point in trying to survive when people don't try to help me." "When we—we share a community, we should all be engaged and more involved in each other's wellbeing, you know?" [Verse 1: Macklemore] 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’s a victim But the people that I live with treat ‘em more like villains than actual citizens I walk past a man laying in his own vomit He 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 Iraq and attack When we got people on the streets without a roof over their back 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 nowhere to go And the concrete's the only place they have to call home [Chorus 1: Don-P] Nowhere to call your own Out here in the cold Wishing you had a home Feeling you're all alone Nowhere to call your own Out here in the cold Wishing you had a home (Yo) Feeling all alone [Verse 2: Macklemore] 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' We don't see the kid who was an addict the second that his mom was pregnant Or the young girl who was raped and stripped of 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 setback Like the last five-hundred-years wasn't enough to accomplish that Now look at the homeless rate, and tell me to my face that 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 [Chorus 1: Don-P] Nowhere to call your own Out here in the cold Wishing you had a home Feeling you're all alone Nowhere to call your own Out here in the cold Wishing you had a home (Yo) Feeling all alone [Chorus 2: Macklemore] 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 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 'em to yourself, 'cause change starts right there 'Cause change starts right there [Outro: Don-P] The streets are cold, all alone In the city Where you lay your head is your home What a pity People pass you by with a glance Say you're filthy But they don't know they pain you've been through No, not really