Homeless - Luka Bloom

It was a homeless man in Hollywood who got me thinking

We’d just flown in from San Francisco;

we’d been flying

And driving for weeks.

This day I saw a homeless man on

The street in Hollywood.

I felt the usual mix of sorrow for him

And anger at a society that makes a man live like this

Later on I thought about it more, he affected me differently

He really looked together, really organised.

He was a survivor

I’m sure his life is really tough, but I felt a deep sense of

Respect for him, much more than pity.

Then I asked myself

Why did I react this way.

It struck me, that here in this crazy

World, there was a man, who drives no car, who flies no plane

Who heats no home;

in a time of global warming his co2

Emissions are pretty much zero.

This homeless man in

Hollywood is a model urban citizen

I on the other hand, I live this life of good intentions

I travel the world, I try to be aware of the earth, I sing my songs

I look and hope for change.

But out on the road, I fly everyday

I drive everyday, I heat my home, and burn up so much fuel

That if everyone lived like me, we’d need about 4 planets

Just to keep it all going… Shit!

Funny how a homeless man in Hollywood got me thinking…

Men like him just walk the walk, and men like me…

Well, we talk a good talk…

It was a homeless man in Hollywood…

Homeless…