Open your shelters and let us all in
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Tired and homeless and hungry again
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Outside my window at fountain & vine
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Drunks and addicts are forming a line
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Sharing their stories to comfort dispair
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Carry the weight of the crosses they bare
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Praying for courage and wisdom to change
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Serenity costs more than pocket book change
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I want to tear down the walls
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And shatter the image that falls
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I want to turn all the tables
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And give back what doesn't belong to me
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Sleeping on sidewalks is how people live
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Begging for something no one wants to give
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Size of your wealth is a bottle of wine
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Sipped with your friends you'll soon leave behind
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Are your children in flames?
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Incarcerated and bound by the chain?
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Strangers paralyze
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Down in the gutters of fountain & vine
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Feel like running away
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Tired of seeing them falling aside
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There's no running away
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I want to tear it all down
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Build it all up from the ground
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I want to tear down the wall
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And shatter the image that falls on me
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The view from down here
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Brings mention to mind
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Everything's sacred on fountain & vine
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Fountain & Vine
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Oleander |