On the Streets Where We Live
- Sung to
- On the Street Where You Live
- Written by
- Monica Zucker
- Gaggle
- Seattle
Know the tune On the Street Where You Live? You're ready.
Record your gaggle singing it and we'll feature it here.
- Read the lyrics through once silently before singing.
- If the original tune is unfamiliar, look it up first.
- Modify freely. Every gaggle adapts songs to local issues.
You must understand why we live out here.
You must know that we need not be any cause of fear.
We need treat-ment, and insurance,
Or we can’t leave the streets where we live.
There are centers now where we could get care.
If you’d fund them we’d escape this awful, long nightmare.
No more jailing, no institutions—
We’d get off of the streets where we live.
Bridge:
And oh, that wonderful feeling!
To have care and jobs and a life,
And homes that further our healing,
And lives restored and joy and freedom from strife!
So fund mental health just like heart disease.
Take us off the streets and shelters and the jailhouse—please!
Let us live our lives with our families—
And not die on the streets where we live.