"Another Day in Paradise" by Phil Collins is a song that has haunted me since childhood. When I first heard it, I didn't realize it was about homelessness, though ironically, I had been nearly homeless at the time.  As a child, I thought it was a love song. The lyrics and the acerbic piano melody are about rejection, isolation, and toxic self-consciousnesses, things that haunted me for many years. The song has become something of an anthem for me for a sense of loneliness and disconnect juxtaposed to the fantasies and para-relationships one's mind creates to deal with it ubiquitous to life in modern society.

"He walks on, doesn't look back
He pretends he can't hear her
Starts to whistle as he crosses the street
Seems embarrassed to be there"

-Another Day in Paradise, Phil Collins