## Walking Together: Songs for Solidarity ## This is an entry in the Walking Together songwriting contest. The WEF estimates there are over 150 million people without homes worldwide. This project is aimed at supporting efforts to help people "made of potential" out of homelessness in co-operation with Homeless Entrepreneurs. The winning song will be chosen as an anthem for HE's upcoming "Great Walk" and featured in a music video by David Israel. For more details and to find out how you can enter, visit songs-for-solidarity.web.app To see entries, check out the playlist here: https://suno.com/playlist/a6521e67-4924-41b8-a5aa-bf4564ae2cea Also please check out the Scottish version of this song! (sadly too long for inclusion) https://suno.com/song/fb4a4b17-d817-47db-b1ca-c5bfece2123b [Solo fingerpicked guitar in DADGAD] Verse 1: Working hard each day of the week and the bank's still in the red Every morning I get up and work into the night Then Sarah took the kids away, said "Love won't pay these bills" Now I'm pacing round this empty place like a restless hungry ghost [Add muted bodhran] Verse 2: There's a cupboard on the seventh floor where I used to have a home Kept my suit pressed neat at work, pretending I still had a home But someone found me sleeping late, my snore was my betrayal Now sitting in the morning rain with just my guitar and I play [Add mournful violin] First Chorus: They say I've hit rock bottom, and maybe they are right Wandering these empty streets in the cold of night There's something in the letting go that scares me half to death Maybe I was always lost and this is all that's left Verse 3: The hostel's eyes of broken dreams are always watching me They stole my phone last Tuesday night, that one selfie with my sweet But I punched the culprit in the face, now I'm back out in the cold My fingers finding songs to sing. Just me and my guitar. Verse 4: The bottle helps me sleep at night beneath the bridge's shade But every morning brings the shame of promises I'd made Could've been somebody else, that's what echoes in my mind But that somebody never sang these songs that now I leave behind [Bridge explosion] Met some migrants by the market where they throw good food away We share what we can carry, trade the stories of our yesterday Found an empty house where the roof still holds against the rain Started seeing different paths through all these streets I thought I knew Final Chorus: You say that I am falling, but I've never flown so high These feet could take me anywhere beneath this open sky There's wisdom in the letting go of all that I should be I hear the ocean calling and for once my heart feels free [Recited over guitar drone] "How'd you get all the way over here? That's like hours away!" "Ha! I just used my two legs and walked"
