destitute

suffering extreme poverty

Heard in 46 songs (27M+ combined views) — most famously in "Family and Loyalty" by Gang Starr.

Updated September 26, 2026

Songs Featuring “destitute”

Gang Starr - Family and Loyalty

Time: 2:11

I'm destined to invest in urban sections where depression rules

I hope to heal the destitute before I leave this vestibule

Between the heavens and the seven circles

Gang Starr - Family and Loyalty

femtanyl - GIRL HELL 1999

Time: 0:51

Can you please just check again?

I'd become fucking destitute before I'd be your man

There are wires overhead, and there are wires in your hands

femtanyl - GIRL HELL 1999

J. Cole - WHO TF IZ U

Time: 1:03

What I'm quotin' is God's scope and come view the pottery

I blaze by graveyards and destitute economies

Full of thug bones for refusin' to move in harmony

J. Cole - WHO TF IZ U

Logic - AfricAryaN

Time: 10:02

I'll never feel your approval till I accept my own

Come from a messed up home, destitute and less informed

About the ways to raise a child up

Logic - AfricAryaN

JT Music - Riddle For You

Time: 0:55

It can be medicine for anyone, sick of abuse

It's what the destitute denizens of this city could use

It can't be kept in custody, I'm done with this interview

JT Music - Riddle For You

Death Grips - Artificial Death in the West

Time: 3:07

Hole in this platinum ship of fools, nomadic rule, concept, no rules

Mobile shrine of this destitute wasteland mute

Screamin' at me, winkin' at me, like I love it

Death Grips - Artificial Death in the West

The Black Dahlia Murder - Matriarch

Time: 2:52

This child in hate belongs to me

In this heart so destitute

There is a void that's lying stillborn

The Black Dahlia Murder - Matriarch

Toto - Wings of Time

Time: 2:17

Angel of mercy please, why so much pain?

I cry for forgiveness, I'm the destitute man

Who still remains, it's so hard to explain

Toto - Wings of Time

Bad Religion - Grains of Wrath

Time: 0:37

I don't wanna be in the land

Known as destitute and free

With the grains of wrath blazing a path

Bad Religion - Grains of Wrath

Mariah Carey - My Saving Grace

Time: 1:51

Grew up confused

Been destitute

I've seen life from many sides

Mariah Carey - My Saving Grace

Aurelio Voltaire - Zombie Prostitute

Time: 1:30

♪

Morally, I'm destitute

In the tomb of ill repute

Aurelio Voltaire - Zombie Prostitute

The Roots - Clock with No Hands

Time: 2:40

You say you want a revolution, you out of your mizind

Your sons' destitute, and their pops all in the prison

My man's back in the jam, he like the back of my hand

The Roots - Clock with No Hands

Antonio Banderas - And the Money Kept Rolling (In and Out)

Time: 1:46

And the money kept rolling out in all directions

To the poor, to the weak, to the destitute of all complexions

Now cynics claim a little of the cash has gone astray

Antonio Banderas - And the Money Kept Rolling (In and Out)

Max McNown - Love I Couldn't Mend

Time: 1:01

That won't let me let go of the one I swore I'd never lose

Lord have mercy this soul's destitute

♪

Max McNown - Love I Couldn't Mend

Nile - The Blessed Dead

Time: 0:44

We work the fields of the masters

Destitute, servile, cast out

Affording no tomb

Nile - The Blessed Dead

Motörhead - Love Can't Buy You Money

Time: 0:45

Some might think it's funny

Prostitute, destitute

Love can't buy you money

Motörhead - Love Can't Buy You Money

Joni Mitchell - The Magdalene Laundries

Time: 1:29

Of the Magdalene laundries

Prostitutes and destitutes

And temptresses like me

Joni Mitchell - The Magdalene Laundries

Thin Lizzy - Toughest Street in Town

Time: 0:20

But she don't know how to fight

She's destitute and broken down

She softly whispers is there no one around

Thin Lizzy - Toughest Street in Town

New Years Day - My Dear

Time: 0:11

Just don't leave me on my own

Desperate and destitute

A shadow of the former self I knew

New Years Day - My Dear

Rick Springfield - Still Crazy for You

Time: 0:54

I shied away when you needed me most

I didn't see what I was doing, now I'm left destitute

I never knew how lost I could be 'til today

Rick Springfield - Still Crazy for You

Keith Richards - Eileen

Time: 1:08

How much I had baby when I had you

I'm destitute this way

I'm doing time living here without you

Keith Richards - Eileen

El-P - Dead Disnee

Time: 0:48

Try to act cute, got his hoofs in my pantry

Frolic through the woods destitute and mad aggy

Brainwashed badly, the propaganda had me

El-P - Dead Disnee

The Clash - Kingston Advice

Time: 1:55

In these days, I don't know what to do

The more I see, the more I'm destitute

In these days, I don't know what to sing

The Clash - Kingston Advice

The Jayhawks - Trouble

Time: 2:40

We were stranded on the vine

Destitute and shaken

Looking for a sign

The Jayhawks - Trouble

k.d. lang - Maybe

Time: 1:09

Maybe I am doomed

Maybe I'm destitute

♪

k.d. lang - Maybe

Atmosphere - The Outernet

Time: 1:26

With my crew for the rest of you

To arrive to shed the destitute mind

State supplied by life

Atmosphere - The Outernet

Jalen Ngonda - Hang It On The Shelf

Time: 0:40

And I need you, baby (to myself), ooh

In times of grief, destitute

I keep to myself, yes, I do

Jalen Ngonda - Hang It On The Shelf

Sage Francis - Product Placement

Time: 0:58

without an oxygen tank or wet suit.

Destitute conditions leave fishermen victims of circumstance.

But you don't need a hook for the worms to dance.

Sage Francis - Product Placement

Stereolab - Hallucinex

Time: 1:40

The time when all forms of expressions of life

Will be so destitute of substance

Bang

Stereolab - Hallucinex

The Georgia Satellites - I Dunno

Time: 0:45

Cause your totally emotionally abused

Spiritually impoverished and moral destitute

Step right up your table's waitin'

The Georgia Satellites - I Dunno

Jonny Lang - It's Not Over

Time: 0:58

This one's for the prostitute

The drug abused, homeless and destitute

And anybody wanting to be rescued

Jonny Lang - It's Not Over

Petra - Rose Colored Stained Glass Windows

Time: 1:57

When you have so much you think, you have so much to lose

You think you have no lack, when you're really destitute

Looking through rose colored stained glass windows - stained glass windows!

Petra - Rose Colored Stained Glass Windows

Aborted - Coronary Reconstruction

Time: 0:57

A sycophantic pathosis

Removal of the cancer that destitutes life

Once upon the slab it becomes discernible

Aborted - Coronary Reconstruction

Frank Zappa - Teen-age Prostitute

Time: 0:36

She ran away from home

Her mom was destitute

Her daddy doesn't care

Frank Zappa - Teen-age Prostitute

Alphaville - Some People

Time: 0:46

Some people pay to be abused

Some people end up destitute

Some people search their souls for truth

Alphaville - Some People

MC Frontalot - Charity Case

Time: 0:47

It's true:

Frontalot's destitute.

I need you

MC Frontalot - Charity Case

Country Joe & the Fish - Flying High

Time: 0:22

My thumbs done froze, can't feel my toes

I feel a little destitute

Wheels throwing water all over my axe

Country Joe & the Fish - Flying High

Prison - You and Me and the Devil

Time: 0:38

That I'm the only one in this room?

Yes, these destitute thoughts, well, they always consume

What's left of my psyche just seconds too soon

Prison - You and Me and the Devil

Chubb Rock - ABCs

Time: 1:51

Attitude that came outta struggle

Destitute but I make it hopeful

You real but my real is tenfold

Chubb Rock - ABCs

Time: 1:08

Passed down from father to son

Hopeless and destitute

Destroyed my gratitude

blink-182 - Heart's All Gone

Adam Again - It Is What It Is (What It Is)

Time: 0:20

Dark drive down the five at 75

I am destitute and stranded

Sense to be made, I am afraid

Adam Again - It Is What It Is (What It Is)

Lucinda Williams - Plan to Marry

Time: 0:40

And frozen beneath the ground

And the destitute and isolated

Have all been forgotten

Lucinda Williams - Plan to Marry

Incantation - Transcend into Absolute Dissolution

Time: 2:33

decrepit intellect

Lost in destitute

spirituality

Incantation - Transcend into Absolute Dissolution

Atomic Cafe - Peachy Keen

Time: 0:51

Were always on my mind

Destitute and getting older

You were fucked up I was sober

Atomic Cafe - Peachy Keen

Embrace The End - Cop In A Cage

Time: 1:59

We're laughing in the face of imminent death

Flaunting our riches to the destitute

The power lines hang too low around here

Embrace The End - Cop In A Cage

Against Me! - The Western World

Time: 2:32

♪

We were star-crossed, we were destitute.

Our words spoke mass destruction.

Against Me! - The Western World