Men with no Friends
Appeared on Seven Leaves in a Blue Bowl of Water
Song for the homeless of the world an' a few crazy memories and dreams
(David Munyon / S.P. Standley / Thomas Poling)
Thomas Poling is my dear friend and we were talking one day about how to help the homeless people, why they were homeless, probably because they got their feelings hurt, one too many times... and as we should all of us, everyone try our best to help the homeless people of This Planet, in whatever City or Country that they live in.
They're the men who sweat when they gamble
While the coffee an' smoke stain their soul
Keeping Nike's just inside dirty waistcoats
Keeping love in a rusty old hole
Broken dream deafly backing a looser
Never thinking why looser won't win
They're the heroes who went so unnoticed
That the efforts went out with the wind
Near the road that flows to Atlanta
On the Bench where memories all end
To the trails back and forth from the Bowery
March the hearts an' the men with no friends
Wearing scars like medals from a battle
Fading tattoos smeared on old skin
Lucky Strikes is all luck have left them
Photographs of young wives left for gin
They don't cry but their face is always cryin'
Ah, the nights get warm around dawn
That's their battle cry in the distance
Some say that they're JUST PRAISE-IN GOD
David Munyon: vocal, guitar
Chris Jones: guitar
Martin Huch: dobro
Thomas Klippel: hammond b3
Hans-Jörg Maucksch: bass