Someone Else's Problem Lyrics

Met Kim at the solstice and you asked her in for tea

She was set up and sleeping by the corner gum tree

She ate and she danced, a good time on her own

But saw the fear in her eye as we packed up and went home

We locked up and went home

It was a cold December night and you barely slept

With Kim on your mind you tossed turned and you wept

So early next morn you went back to that tree

Said, Hey can I make you a coffee?

Christmas is here again

Run another lap with your family and friends

But what about those doin' it rough on their own?

I guess I chalk 'em up as someone else's problem

Yeah I chalk 'em up as someone else's problem

You tried to help Kim, tried to sort her a phone

But to set up a SIM card you need a fixed home

You got her a few nights in that grimy motel

Ooooh what's the point, I wanted to yell

Yeah I actually got annoyed driving you both around

Cause we were clutching at straws to track her family down

And Kim had been on the streets now for four odd years

The hopelessness of it all well it had you in tears

I think I felt guilty and ashamed of all the unfairness

Of living most of my life with so little care and awareness

Of those who take so little, while I take so much

You showed me how I'd been so out of touch

But the truth is right there, it's just uncomfortable to feel

Whether it's our cooking planet or those without a next meal

And I guess that's how we got here, in a world so messed up

Is we turned the blind eye

And we chalked it up as someone else's problem

Christmas is here again

Run another lap with my family and friends

Without sparing a thought to the pain of the world

And just chalk it up as someone else's problem

Christmas is here again, am I really gonna

Run another lap with my family and friends

Without opening this heart to the pain of the world

And just chalk it up as someone else's problem

Nah you taught me that it's all of our problem