Gary Morris

Somebody Lives There

Gary Morris


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 own 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) 

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)