Moss Park

Moss Park is a residential neighbourhood located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the poorest cities in Canada. The song ‘Moss Park’ by Rare Americans expresses the struggle of the area and the people in it, as some poor and homeless people use the park as their living space or hang around there to ‘beg’.

Lyrics
[Verse 1]

You can learn a lot about life from Moss Park

I’m 20 years in still scared of the dark

I’ve seen it all, I sleep under the lights

I got scars from the tar and bites from the night

Alright

It’s alright

I sleep in late on the grass when it's nice

The park bench baby when the air is ice

Breakfast is hot, handout church rice

Begging and scrounging, men are mice

Rise and shine, crack a beer

365 Saturdays a year

[Chorus]

I'm starvin', I can not eat no more

I'm lyin', I can not cheat no more

I'm beggin', I can not keep no more

My soul, my will, my heart

I’m living dark

Man I’m living dark

In Moss Park man I live in the dark

I live in the da-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ark

[Verse 2]

I’m fucked up man, beyond belief

I’m quiverin’, shiverin, there is no relief

I’m on the shady side of the street

I’m starched, I’m parched

Barely out of the heat

I just collapsed, I will awake all confused

Can't remember if I was just fucked up or abused

I go hard, I go high

I chirp at the passers on the side

And wear a hat that reads "too high to die"

[Chorus]

I'm starvin', I can not eat no more

I'm lyin', I can not cheat no more

I'm beggin', I can not keep no more

My soul, my will, my heart

I’m living dark

Man I’m living dark

In Moss Park man I live in the dark

I live in the da-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ark

[Outro]

It’s getting dark

It’s time