The Bum and the General (feat. Catherine Evergreen)

When the world's getting harsher and colder than fair Where the good gets the bad and the bad doesn't care So I'm telling the stories to show what I mean But things that you'll see cannot be unseen It makes me say There's bum on the street and he's asking for change But nobody looked his direction that day All that he says that he needs with your dime Is a meal for his daughter and some shelter this time And I reach in my soul and I answer his call He tells me God Bless You and there's hope for us all But a few hours later he is asking for more He's got a bottle of whiskey and a bag from a score It makes me say... There was a general, a hero, a leader of man Holds the fate of his soldiers in the palm of his hand How can it be that he's better off dead Then to live with the demons that grow in his head Like the burden he carries from the battle survived, To the last image he witnessed that burned in his mind Was when he rolled on by He saw a child with a rifle that's willing to die Makes me say...