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“Where the streets have no name,

When I go there,

I go there with you,

It's all I can do”

U2,

Where The Streets Have No Name

They so wanted to run

They so wanted to hide

They so wanted to tear down walls

That so cruelly held them inside

But they somehow reached out

And touched my heart and soul

Where the streets had no names

They wanted to feel the sunlight on their faces

They wanted to see their human friends reappear

How they longed for their very simple lives back

Devoid of their hunger their loneliness and their fear

Where the streets had no names

Where the streets had no names

I still go there in my troubled mind

I still wander out there with them now

Sometimes I now wish I were blind

They were so forlornly abandoned

And their hearts so sadly forgot how to trust

They were beaten and blown about by the wind

They were left behind in the water mud and dust

I still know the place

It still lives on in my soul

Where the streets had no names

Where they huddled desperate dying and cold

Where the streets had no names

I wept for these creatures and for us

Where these streets had no names

My soul filled with both sadness and disgust

Where the streets had no names

I still go back there in my troubled mind

Back to those brutal streets with no names

That for far too many were far too cruel and unkind

I can still see their shadowy faces

As I wander my own neighborhood

I truly wish that I never had to again

I’d erase all their pain if only I could

But I still see their faces

Sometimes both night and day

And I doubt their ghostly images

From my mind will ever slip away

I went there for them

It's about all I could do

Those streets with no names

Still make me so god damned blue

And I sincerely hope and pray

That when the next disaster strikes

We never again leave them behind

To such a horrendous horrifying plight

Where the streets had no names

When I still end up there somehow

I still weep for them and for us

It's about all I can do right now

©2006, Ed Kostro