Only a Hobo
Echoes of the Forgotten: A Tale of the Vanished Hobo
Lyrics
As I was out walking on a corner one day,
Describes the narrator's experience while walking on a corner and encountering a hobo.
I spied an old hobo, in a doorway he lay.
Observation of an old hobo lying in a doorway.
His face was all grounded on the cold sidewalk floor.
The hobo's face is pressed against the cold sidewalk.
And I guess he had been there for the whole night or more.
Suggests the hobo had been in that position for the entire night or longer.
He was only a hobo, but one more is gone.
Reflection on the hobo's status and the acknowledgment of another loss in the community.
Leaving nobody to sing his sad song.
Expresses that there is no one to sing the hobo's sad song after his departure.
Leaving nobody to carry him home,
Highlights the absence of someone to take the hobo home.
He was only a hobo but one more is gone.
Reiterates the hobo's status and the impact of his departure.
A blanket of newspapers covered his head.
Describes the hobo using a blanket of newspapers as cover while sleeping on the street.
The curb was his pillow, the street was his bed.
Notes the curb as his makeshift pillow and the street as his bed.
One look at his face showed the hard road he'd come.
Indicates the visible hardships the hobo has faced on his life journey.
And a fist full of coins showed the money he'd bummed.
Points out the money the hobo has begged for and received, shown in a fist full of coins.
He was only a hobo, but one more is gone.
Reiteration of the hobo's status and the acknowledgment of his passing.
Leaving nobody to sing his sad song.
Expresses the absence of someone to continue the hobo's sad song after his departure.
Leaving nobody to carry him home,
Highlights the void left by the hobo's absence, as there is no one to carry him home.
He was only a hobo but one more is gone.
Reiterates the hobo's status and the impact of his departure on the community.
It don't take much a man to see his life go down,
Reflects on the ease with which a person's life can deteriorate.
To look up at the world from a hole in the ground.
Describes the perspective of looking up at the world from a low point, possibly emphasizing despair.
To wait for your future like a horse that's gone lame.
Compares waiting for the future to a lame horse, suggesting a sense of hopelessness.
To lie in the gutter and die with no name.
Conveys the tragic fate of lying in the gutter and dying anonymously.
He was only a hobo, but one more is gone.
Reiteration of the hobo's status and the acknowledgment of his passing.
Leaving nobody to sing his sad song.
Expresses the absence of someone to continue the hobo's sad song after his departure.
Leaving nobody to carry him home,
Highlights the void left by the hobo's absence, as there is no one to carry him home.
He was only a hobo but one more is gone.
Reiterates the hobo's status and the impact of his departure on the community.
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