Every City Needs A Refuge

Every city has a watering hole, a bank, a bakery and a bar
Every city has a park with trees and grass to lay on and watch stars

Every city has a boutique or mall to get your Sunday's clothes
Every city has a church with bulletins and Bibles stuffed between the rows

Every city has a dealer, a pimp and a hooker on corners late at night
Every city has a hustler, a womanizer or a golddigger hidden or in plain sight

Every city has a gang banger, or thug with a grill he stole
Every city has a welfare queen, with ten kids on her roll

But every city don't have a place to go, if all these ills are yours
Some places move where you can't catch a bus and some just close their doors

Some places check your ID at the front gate annd some just turn you around
Some make sure your uncomfortable with a sly and subtle put down

Every city needs a place where you can stop and change your ways
Every city needs a place where you learn that righteousness pays

Every city needs a place for the depressed and ,beaten down low
Every city needs a refuge, a safe place for you to go