It gets cold in the wintertime And the handouts are few Is the whole world so blind To the plight of the few It could be your neighbor Who should be your friend In the heart of the homeless The heartaches don't end And the heart of the homeless Is the soul on the street And the heart of the homeless Is a sad place to be In a land full of wheat fields You wonder how this can be Here in the wealthiest nation in all history We're building our churches to god up above In our race to be human We forgot about love