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( Hospital patient dumping song lyrics )
HOSPITAL TAKES A DUMP
Copyright © 2007 - mickterry.com

1: Skid Row isn't all that scenic,
not your standard tourist fare.
The tour bus guides of old Hollywood
never show this side of town.
Skid Row isn't for the squeamish:
a thickness chokes the air.
There's a gray cloud low over ev'rything
in this magnet of the lost & down.

2: Midnight at the Midnight Mission,
an ambulance pulls up
& tries to leave a- homeless man
strapped- down at the mission's door.
Midnight, he's in no condition,
still needing follow-up,
& the guards refuse to accept him in
when he's clearly needing so much more.

CHORUS:
"Hospital takes a dump", the headlines read.
Hospital takes a dump. At least the patient’s not dead.
No insurance, no money, no fam'ly:   no go.
Paraplegic, half-conscious, he's dropped on Skid Row.
Hospital takes a dump.

3: Drivers wheel him back on the gurney
& the ambulance pulls out,
returning back to the hospital,
returning to the dark.
A diff'rent driver on a different journey
& the same man gets let out,
just a block away from the Mission,
at the edge- of a vagrants' park.
CHORUS:

BRIDGE:
This wasn't just the first time. For sure it's not the last.
You'd think that simple caring would put this in the past.
CHORUS:

CODA:
Driver puts on perfume & make-up as the patient crawls away
in the gutter with a torn colostomy bag,
soiled- hospital gown that's barely a rag,
in the gutter as he's barely able to drag himself up out of the way.

Copyright © 2007  MICK TERRY  Silent Tree Music  All rights reserved
[ Reprinted here by permission of the composer-lyricist ]   BMI
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5-6-08:
Continued dumping of homeless patients by Los Angeles' hospitals.

2-8-07:
Another homeless patient dumped on L.A.'s Skid Row.

2-3-07:
Homeless patient dumped on L.A.'s Skid Row by local hospitals
caught on mission security cameras.

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