Stranger

He was just crawling out of a cardboard box And I turned in time to see him fall Running over to help him up He cried I don't need no help at all Reaching under his arm, I helped him stand I must have stared and I heard him say Get out of here. Leave me alone. Don't worry about me, I'll be okay There's a shelter, can I take you there You'll get something to eat and a place to sleep He said I got all that I need ain't going nowhere I sowed these seeds, now it's time to reap Sometimes things don't work out no matter how well you plan For each day of sunshine, you get a month of rain Then one day you try to dream but no longer can And the happiness and joy are replaced by pain Then you drown your pain and move from city to city You blame everyone else and to yourself you lied Don't look at me. I don't need your damn pity Each night you look back and that's when you cried So thanks for caring but I'll be fine Got all I want and all I need Got a brown paper bag and a bottle of wine Be going home soon, then I'll be freed So I left him there and went on my way At home, I thought about him when I got inside I saw his obituary in the paper the very next day An old man died in the street, and I sat and cried.