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 cryin where no one can hear somebody s dyin alone in a city where nobody cares down in the gutter an old man had fallen like someone the world threw away and the late crowd was leaving and nobody even took time to look down where he lay the old man was crying and helplessly tryin 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 cryin where no one can hear somebody s dying alone in a city where nobody cares in a city where nobody cares