Somebody Nobody Knows

(Kris Kristofferson)



Alone in a barroom a young girl is sitting

And smiling at nothing at all

And she stares now and then at the eyes of the men

In the mirror that hangs on the wall.



She's waiting for someone and knowing there's no one

Who cares if she comes or she goes

Just a soul in the shadows the world never sees

She's somebody nobody knows.



Someone no one's ever known

Crying where no one can hear

Somebody's dying alone in a city

Where nobody cares.



Down in the gutter an old man had fallen

Like something the world threw away

And the late crowd was leavin' and nobody even took time

To look down where he lay.



The old man was crying and helplessly

Trying to wipe off the stain from his clothes

Just a soul in the shadows that life left behind

He's somebody nobody knows.



Someone no one's ever known

Crying where no one can hear

Somebody's dying alone in a city

Where nobody cares...