Homeless Persons' Memorial Day Top 100 Songs
Song #81
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Queensryche
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Queensrÿche has sold over 20 million albums worldwide, including over 6 million albums in the United States. The band received worldwide acclaim after the release of their 1988 album Operation: Mindcrime, which is often considered one of the greatest heavy metal concept albums of all time. Their follow-up release, Empire, released in 1990, was also very successful and included the hit single "Silent Lucidity". The band has received three Grammy Award nominations for songs from both albums. In 1998, drummer Rockenfield received an individual Grammy nomination.
"Della Brown" was co-written by Geoff Tate and Scott Rockenfield; the 4th track on the 1990 Empire album, it runs to a full 7 minutes 4 seconds. In a 1990 interview with Hit Parader, frontman Tate said of this lachrymose electric ballad:
It's "one of the more interesting tracks on the record, and one I enjoyed singing. It's a look into the life of a woman who had it all - beauty, brains and success. But things didn't work out for her, and it all slipped away. She ended up homeless - living on the street. It's a very moody song that gets into a groove and stays there all the way through.
That song also means a lot to Chris and me because we see the homeless people all the time in Seattle. Most of the time you just fly by them in your car, but I remember once when we were caught in traffic and just watched them. How sad it was. They were just living in doorways with cardboard boxes for covering. It really moved us."
"Della Brown" was co-written by Geoff Tate and Scott Rockenfield; the 4th track on the 1990 Empire album, it runs to a full 7 minutes 4 seconds. In a 1990 interview with Hit Parader, frontman Tate said of this lachrymose electric ballad:
It's "one of the more interesting tracks on the record, and one I enjoyed singing. It's a look into the life of a woman who had it all - beauty, brains and success. But things didn't work out for her, and it all slipped away. She ended up homeless - living on the street. It's a very moody song that gets into a groove and stays there all the way through.
That song also means a lot to Chris and me because we see the homeless people all the time in Seattle. Most of the time you just fly by them in your car, but I remember once when we were caught in traffic and just watched them. How sad it was. They were just living in doorways with cardboard boxes for covering. It really moved us."
"Della Brown"
Lyrics
You've got a cardboard house
Live there all the time
Keep your memories tied with string
The face that many once adored
Twenty years gone maybe more
Somewhere you lost the dream
Mama watched your every move,
But now you're all alone, oh yeah
She's been gone for awhile
Daddy left some time ago,
Fading years pass too slow
He's the only one, could make you smile
Oh, you're still crying
Big city bound
Gonna make your mark
Read your name in the lights
All the ads and people say,
Beauty lets you get you way
Tried your best to prove them right
But living on the streets ain't bad,
Sad people make you glad
Pardon me, could you spare some change
Oh, you're still crying
Street corner girl
Watch the crowd go by
Fill your tin can with life
Summer days tend to slip away
Like your men you couldn't make them stay
Hard to choose, whiskey or a wife
Sometimes you wonder where's the end
Where you goin' where you been?
Happiness seems so hard to win
Most never care to find
Della Brown sees it al the time
Looking for that man
To make her smile again
Oh, you're still crying
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