Fountain & Vine - Oleander

Open your shelters and let us all in

Tired and homeless and hungry again

Outside my window at fountain & vine

Drunks and addicts are forming a line

Sharing their stories to comfort despair

Carry the weight of the crosses they bare

Praying for courage and wisdom to change

Serenity cost more than pocket book change

I want to tear down the walls

And shatter the image that falls

I want to turn all the tables

And give back what doesn’t belong to me

Sleeping on sidewalks is how people live

Begging for something no one wants to give

Size of your wealth is a bottle of wine

Sipped with your friends you’ll soon leave behind

Are your children in flames?

Incarcerated and bound by the chain?

Strangers paralyze

Down in the gutters of fountain & vine

Feel like running away

Tired of seeing them falling aside

There’s no running away

I want to tear it all down

Build it all up from the ground

I want to tear down the wall

And shatter, the image, that falls on me

The view from down here

Brings mention to mind

Everything’s sacred on fountain & vine