Beggin' in the Slums

I ain't been sleeping well these days
 I lie awake listening to the trains
 Wishing for one of them
 To come take me away
 Lost my way every place I've been
 Tired of thinking of all the hurt I've seen
 Wishing for death
 To finally take me.
 My days are all the same
 On the corners I beg and plead
 I blow my lungs out
 For some strangers change
 The nights are long and cold
 Under bridges where you're all alone
 Embers of the fire build
 Like drifts of snow
 I've been thrown out
 I've been let down
 Never felt a promise
 Of this town
 That it was supposed to be
 When I left home
 I am washed up
 On my last breath
 Just an old man
 With nothing left.
 It ain't the way it was supposed to be
 When I came home.
 My ups and my downs
 Have burnt me out
 These people watching me
 The swan song that I sing
 And in the crowd
 I feel the eyes
 That have been broken down
 Just like mine.
 I hope these words dig deep
 I hope he's listening
 He sees what I've become
 Just a broken man begging in slums
 I found my hope
 Finally found my hope
 In the poor lost souls eyes
 That were burning just like mine.