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about
About three years ago I rode with The Van’s Aaron Reddin during a national census of the Homeless population. Aaron, Red, and others scoured the forgotten parts of the city in search of Aaron’s friends living in tents, under bridges, and behind downtown office buildings. In the months to follow, I was unable to forget the experience or the conversations we had that evening. It was a very cold night and I was particularly haunted by a question Aaron posed. On a night where the temperatures would dip into the teens, the lines outside the local shelters were long. The Salvation Army, I learned, charged $7.00 for a bed for the night. Aaron’s question was simply this…
“if you were homeless and the only other choice was to risk freezing to death; what would you do for $7.00? How far would you degrade yourself for a chance to sleep inside?”
A year later, that question became this song… ~Mark Currey
*Proceeds from this download will go DIRECTLY to support The One, Inc. in their efforts to serve the homeless in Central Arkansas and around the state.
lyrics
Lyrics:
She used to be a beauty now she’s got nowhere to sleep.
her life ain’t been no fairy tale – she’s only 17
it’s only seven dollars for a place to sleep inside
so she’s in the alley selling love one minute at a time
her momma let her run away from daddy’s nightly threat
she’d like to save her baby but she ain’t that angry yet
we got famine and disease and war and rumors of war too
but if your skin is brown then we ain’t got no help for you
I guess we could do something, maybe we could send a plane
we’d like to solve your problems but we do not want your name
your situation’s pretty dire so take what you can get
we’d like to give you more but man we ain’t that angry yet.
There’s a pretty preacher wearin’ Jesus on his sleeve
says: “if you don’t look like we do, man, I guess you’ll have to leave”
he says the bible tells him who he can and cannot hate
but he promises redemption in the passing of the plate
If simon peter met this man he’d still be at his net
but I’m still on the back row ‘cause I ain’t that angry yet.
credits
released November 19, 2013
Music & Lyrics: Mark Currey
Produced & Engineered by Jason Weinheimer
Recorded at Fellowship Hall Sound - Little Rock, AR
Monkhouse:
Mark Currey: Acoustic Guitar & Vocals
Nathaniel Greer: Electric Guitar
Daniel Schoultz: Bass
David Bishop: Drums
Special Guests:
Greg Spradlin: Electric Guitar
Rj Looney: Blues Harp
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