Gary Morris - Somebody Lives There lyrics

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(Gary Morris - Craig Karp - Jenny Yates)

There's a house down the road with the roof cavin' in

Where an old man rockin' on the front porch is spittin' in a tin

And the bankers think they owe him money's late lets tear him down

But when they went to serve him papers he was no where to be found.

Somebody lives there

Somebody lives there.

There's a cardboard box in an alley where a woman sleeps alone

She keeps her things in a plastic bag she puts her head on a pillow of stone

And the trash man thinks he owns it, it's his job to move it away

But as he reached for those paper walls he heard a neighbor softly say.

Somebody lives there

Somebody lives there.

Chorus:

And everybody needs a little shelter from the cold

So why not line your pockets with the truth instead of gold

Somebody lives there.

There's an Indian Reservation in old New Mexico

They're losin' land to greedy hands now they weep because they know

That the baron's win the battles and the case is quietly closed

Uncle Sam allows the plan that kills the Navajo's.

Somebody lives there

Somebody lives there.

Chorus:

And everybody needs a little shelter from the cold

So why not line your pockets with the truth instead of gold

Somebody lives there.

There's a city in a country south of Mexico

Where the cost of life is less than the price of the coffee beans they grow

And the war down there means nothin' unless the final bomb should blow

If another race should find this place no one would ever know.

That somebody lives there.

Somebody lives there.

Chorus:

And everybody needs a little shelter from the cold

So why not line your pockets with the truth instead of gold

Somebody lives there...