And why can't you see its tearing away what I used to be Oh, so far from home being shallow and alone I'm a shadow of a soul Anywhere I go, anything I try Anyone I love is compromised Everyone I see, staring on back at me Why can't you let me be I don't

When we're hungry, love will keep us alive Now I've found you, there's no more emptiness inside I was standing all alone against the world outside You were searching for a place to hide Lost and lonely, now you've given me the will to survive Don't you

She's a poor girl This is a story 'bout a poor girl, a story that you ought to know She lived all alone in a one room flat on a street where the lights are low Every night about the same time she'd go and put her glad rags on Go to the place where

Well baby, there you stand With your little head, down in your hand Oh, my God, you can't believe it's happening again Your baby's gone, and you're all alone And it looks like the end And you're back out on the street And you're tryin' to remember How do

I'm by the wayside By the wayside Black eyes open wide It's time to testify There's no room for life And everyone's waiting for you And I'm gone, sitting by the phone And I'm all alone by the wayside Everyone's looking at you

Tell me whatcha gonna do when I'm gone Oh and where your gonna go when there's nobody home Tell me whatcha ya gonna do when I'm gone And who's gonna love you when you're all alone Oh whatcha gonna do when I'm gone Who wakes you in the morning time, Who

Every word that falls from my lips falls on deaf ears and I suffocate Now righteousness cast aside thrown to the ground I close my eyes and I see you there See you there But my eyes deceive me Every other sense says I'm alone Now waking hours melt to

In these desperate times. This I plead. When all else fails remember me. Time and time again I stand at the crossroad. Where the weight of my burden eclipses my resolve. This broken path I've chosen, I walk it alone. Though I feel forgotten, you've

Homesick tired All alone in a big city Why should ev'rybody pity me, Nighttime's falling, folks are a singin', they dance till break of day Dear Old Southland with it's dreamy songs Takes me back there where I belong How I'd love to be in mammy's arms

Still hot and smokin' gun I get a constant busy signal When I call you on the phone I get a strong uneasy feeling You're not sitting there alone I'm having nasty, nasty visions And baby you're in every one, yeah And I'm so afraid I'm gonna find you with