Homeless Persons' Memorial Day Top 100 Songs
​Song #54

Pennywise
"Homeless"

Pennywise is an American punk rock band from Hermosa Beach, California, formed in 1988. The band took its name from the evil clown monster from the Stephen King horror novel It.
Between their 1991 self-titled debut and 2005's The Fuse, Pennywise has released an album every two years on Epitaph Records, a label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. To date, the band has released twelve full-length studio albums (the latest being 2018's Never Gonna Die), one live album, 

two EPs and one DVD.

"Homeless" is the sixth track from the self-titled debut album, Pennywise and was released in 1991. The song was written by bass player, Jason Thirsk, who unfortunately died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1996, due to issues with alcoholism. The song features very powerful lyrics and musically, the unmistakable sound of typical if not traditional punk rock.

​My favorite words from the song are:
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Here today where tomorrow?
Death in the shadows
Affects us all
Too many bodies lie in the street
Too many hungry mouths that have the right to feed

"Homeless"
Lyrics

Look at all these people lying around
Look at all these people being scraped right off the ground
Because of too many broken homes
Too many cardboard boxes
Too many people who just can't survive
Hard losses well americans don't belong in tins
Let's learn to help ourselves before we help the foreign
Wounded decay shout out dismay
Can you hear their voices yelling out mayday
Why are we sending money over seas
Look out your window our nation's the one that needs
Because there's not enough income
There's too much poverty
Why must we lose more lives before our eyes will see
We'll leave it alone hope it goes away
Its hard to ignore life when you live it everyday
I'd like to see I'd like to say I'd like to hear that help is on the way
Here today where tomorrow?
Death in the shadows
Affects us all
Too many bodies lie in the street
Too many hungry mouths that have the right to feed

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