Stu Larsen - King Street lyrics

Well, I'm wandering these city streets
There's nothing here for me
All I see is people running round
Buying shit they don't need

There's a man begging down on King Street
And he grabs me by the wrist he says 'Son
You know what the biggest killer
In this world is?
It's not money, not drugs, not guns'

He said, 'It's loneliness
And it's killing me mm, this loneliness
It's bringing me down'

And he'll sleep where the darkness falls
He won't get no curtain calls
And he's only got one pair of shoes
But he's got more serenity than
The rest of humanity
They've been tricked into waiting in queues

And his father is dying
He's got something inside of him
It makes him feel more wrong than right
And his mother'd be lying if
She said she weren't crying
Herself to sleep every night every night

He sees a woman waiting at the station steps
Her conversation fills the air
She's telling the world about
The trouble she's seen but no one can hear

And he wanders into a church
With it's doors wide open
And he's welcomed in with
A half hearted smile
Some guy tells him he's found all the answers
To things like money and drugs and guns

Old man says, 'What about this loneliness?
'Cause it's killing me mm, this loneliness
It's bringing me down'

And I'll sleep where the darkness falls
I won't get no curtain calls
And I've only got one pair of shoes
But, I've got more serenity than
The rest of humanity
They've been tricked into waiting in queues

And my father is dying
He's got something inside of him
It makes him feel more wrong than right
And my mother'd be lying if
She said she weren't crying
Herself to sleep every night
Oh, oh, oh oh oh

And my father is dying
He's got something inside of him
It makes him feel more wrong than right
And my mother'd be lying if
She said she weren't crying
Herself to sleep every night

And my father is dying
He's got something inside of him
It makes him feel more wrong than right
And my mother'd be lying if
She said she weren't crying
Herself to sleep every night every night
Every night every night

Well, I'm wandering these city streets
There's nothing here for me