A Guided Tour Of Chicago

He shuffled up a pair of surfer slippers

And an old tweed blazer

Asked you for a quarter and you looked the other way

He leaned up against the tow zone sign

And just in time for you to avert your eyes

Said "Good morning sir, have a nice day."

She wears four wool winter hats all year round

And mumbles and sometimes screams

He wears a coat made of burlap sacks and sits in parking lots

Never asking anyone for anything

He's the old black guy with the shopping cart

She's the old lady with the bright blue sweat pants

They're the two young white squatter kids

With dirty undershirts and rotten teeth

He's the guy who hangs out underneath the overpass

Shouting curse words at passing motorists

Or the guy who passed in my alley

Who drank until his life made any sense

He's the hustler on the train

Or his four accomplices

Living on three tattered playing cards

And slight of hand

He's Darren in front of 7-11 on Walton and State

She's Babs up and down on Belmont right by the train

He's Buddy and his wife in uptown by the Aragon

He's Andy selling streetwise at the white hen in boys town

He was Ed from the south side

Who gave me cigarettes and hope

At the Walgreens on Belden and Clark

Where inspiration dies alone

Yeah, these are the people in your neighborhood

In your neighborhood, in your neighborhood

These are the people in your neighborhood

They're the people you don't see

When you're walking down the street

They're the people you don't see each day