Letra de Minor Blues

They say the globe is getting warmer
While the world's still growing cold
There's no room in the shelter
For the hungry and the old
People living under bridges, in confusion and despair
Their keeping house in cardboard boxes
In the sub zero night air
With no hope of employment there ain't much left to lose
It's a major situation, giving me the minor blues
On the corner stares a hooker, with the hollow looking eyes
She'll turn a trick and score an fix an overdose an die
By the time the county's buried her
In a low rent pauper's grave
Her little sister's out there on that corner sick with aids
You won't see it in the paper 'cause it seldom makes the news
But it's a major situation giving me the minor blues
The minor blues is saddest with its' own sorrow and pain
You'll know it when you hear it with its sombre sad refrain
You say it's not my problem, say there's nothing I can do
But this ain't some third world country
It's right here with me and you
It's a game-land in the school yard, no place to play and run
Twelve year olds with crack-pots smoking ice and packin' guns
See them hangin' round the dope house
Gettin' high and skippin' school
Cause no-one's at home to love them
Teach them not to play the fool
So the game becomes the family, the only one they ever knew
It's a major situation, givin' me the minor blues
Street man in the alley, in an alcoholic haze
Built a bonfire in a barrel, keepin' warm back there for days
Said I'd lost my wife and family, back in 1993
Till the lord comes back to get us
This is how it looks for me
It's bedlam in the jailhouse as the doors revolve again
There housing 25 where there should be eight to ten
Streets are filled with characters, all released too soon
It ain't because they've done their time
It's 'cause they're out o' room
It's called the justice system; they say it works for me and you
But the law is laced with loopholes and cracks that let the criminals crawl through
It's a major situation, giving me the minor blues