Life on the Nickel

About Life on the Nickel

The song is about a homeless person getting by on what he had, struggling and fighting daily for his life, but still having fun with it. “I live a block and a half away from Skid Row and it’s about a homeless guy and the dichotomy about how homeless people are living in the most humble circumstances, and yet sometimes they have the biggest ego’s ever. I’ve walked up to so many homeless people like, ‘hey want some food?’ and it’s not .

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About this song

Credited to

Foster The People

Album

Torches · Track 8 of 10

Released

May 23, 2011

Duration

3:35

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379,261 listeners on Last.fm

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From the album: Torches