Kristofferson Kris - Somebody Nobody Knows lyrics

Alone in a barroom a young girl is sittin’

and smilin’ at nothing at all.

And she smiles now and then

at the eyes of the men

in the mirror that hangs on the wall.

She’s waitin’ for someone and knowin’ 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.

Chorus:

Someone no one’s ever known

smiling where no one can hear,

somebody’s dying alone

in a city where nobody cares.

Down in the gutter and old man had fallen

like somethin’ 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 cryin’ and helplessly tryin’

to wipe off the stains from his clothes;

just a soul in the shadows

that life left behind,

he’s somebody nobody knows.

Someone no one’s ever known

cryin’ where no one can hear,

somebody’s dying alone

in a city where nobody cares.

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