[Verse 1]

Vagrant

You son of a glitch

Trying to scratch an unreachable itch

From the basement room feels like pharaoh's tomb

And dark closet gloom

Knee-less denim jeans, ripped cotton white shirt

Like a blooming rose been dragged through the dirt

Street dog loyalty

Sitting, sipping Scottish tea

Got nowhere else to be

He's a vagrant

He's a hobo with a bleeding heart for a logo

A case in point, a roach from a ripped joint

A street survivor, a low high-fiver

A drunk dump truck driver

Yeah, vagrant

[Verse 2]

On the dole and off the clock with a head full of white rocks

And big holes in both socks

Escape from Alcatraz, the future came to pass

And all that junky jazz

A poet on the beat looking for food to eat

Melting from the blistering heat

Peering from behind the curtain, just like Richard Burton

His bleeding heart is hurtin' for certain

[Refrain]

Who can save you now?

Who can pull you out?

[Verse 3]

The vagrant rides the cable car down Divisadero Street

Spots a shooting star riding in the shotgun seat

Misson district junkies, college drop-out flunkies

Flea-bitten mangy-monkeys

Vagrant

The vagrant

Underground stench by the bus stop bench

Fading away inch by inch

Mother Mary's in labor, Jesus was a savior, Judas was a traitor

Someone sabotaged my ventilator

Needles in the mud, virus in the blood

Living on jellybeans and Milk Duds

Nose scars are nasty, botched rhinoplasty

You can't put that past me

[Verse 4]

He's a vagrant, he's a saint, sleeping in spilled paint

He'd like to rule the world but he knows he can't

Quite climb that hill, he's just too ill, and he knows he never will Vagrant

Need somewhere to crash, running out of cash

I guess you knew it couldn't last

Quicksilver eyes, full of surprise

Squinting at nuclear crimson skies

Heaven above, sending some love

He's had enough, he's just not that tough

[Refrain]

Who can save you now?

Who can pull you out?

[Outro]

Vagrant walking the pavement (Who can save you now?)

Forgotten and forsaken, feeling pretty vacant

Soul-shaken, heart-achin', vagrant (Who can save you now?)

Vagrant (Who can save you now?)