HoBo Songtext
von Charlie Parr

I want my son to have this when I′m dead
It's a book I always start, but I′ve never read
I was born to follow in the steps my dad tread
If I'd have known that then, you know I'd have fled

Ain′t somebody gonna tell me what I′m doing here?
Ain't somebody gonna tell me where I′m going?
Ain't somebody gonna spend a blank minute on me
To pray for an old hobo who′s gone wrong?

Every day I wake up is a new day
Every song I sing contains a new refrain
When I meet you again, we'll have changed
I′ll remember your face, but maybe not your name


Ain't somebody gonna tell me what I'm doing here?
Ain′t somebody gonna tell me where I′m going?
Ain't somebody gonna spend a blank minute on me
To pray for an old hobo who′s gone wrong?

Life is made up of long hours
Last about as you can breathe
If you close your eyes and let it roll on
Why, you'll wake up and find you′ve missed out on everything

Ain't somebody gonna tell me what I′m doing here?
Ain't somebody gonna tell me where I'm going?
Ain′t somebody gonna spend a blank minute on me
To pray for an old hobo who′s gone wrong?

And the woods around my town have no ending
I don't really live there though, I just don′t
And the lake that's by my town has no bottom
I know somebody who dove in and never came up


Ain′t somebody gonna tell me what I'm doing here?
Ain′t somebody gonna tell me where I'm going?
Ain't somebody gonna spend a blank minute on me
And pray for an old hobo who′s gone wrong?