the clubs are all closed and the ladies are leavin there s nobody nobody knows on the street a few stranded souls standin cold at the station and nowhere to go but to bed and to sleep lord would you look at you now that you re here ain t you proud of your peers and the long way you ve come all alone all the way on your own who s to say that you ve thrown it away for a song boy you ve sure come a long way from home so it s so long so many so far behind you fair weather friends that you no longer know you still got the same lonely songs to remind you of someone you seemed to be so long ago lord would you look at you now that you re here ain t you proud of your peers and the long way you ve come all alone all the way on your own who s to say that you ve thrown it away for a song boy you ve sure come a long way from home