Story Behind The Song

A story about a homeless girl named April (but she was born in May) and how she lives in a box in Evan's park, but she has to move.

Song Description

A story about a homeless girl named April (but she was born in May) and how she lives in a box in Evan's park, but she has to move.

Lyrics

Evan's Park

I know a girl who calls herself April
But she was born in May
She lives deep inside a cardboard box
On the corner of 5th and Main
Her home is painted fluorescent orange
With fragile printed on the side
She's thinking about relocating
But just can't decide

She wants to live down at Evan's Park
Where the traffic ain't so bad
She'll have to live by the fountain
'Cause that's the only space they have
She knows she'll have to change her box
To match her neighbors there
She'll have to paint it forest-green
'Cause the grass is greener there

She can't wait to tell her friends
That she's leaving for something more
She found a can of forest-green
Behind the hardware store
She takes her time and some words of advice
Then waves her friends goodbye
Makes her way down to Evan's Park
Under the April sky

Now she lives down at Evan's Park
Where the traffic ain't so bad
She's living there by the fountain
'Cause that's the only space they had
Unpacked her box and everything she brought
Next to her neighbors there
She painted it forest-green
'Cause the grass is greener there

© 1999 - Music & Lyrics by Bill Hunter, Steven Rosas, Chuck Williams & Phil Wilson