Dead in the water It's not a paid vacation The sons and daughters of city officials Attend demonstrations It's hardly a sink or swim When all is well if the ticket sells Out with a wimper It's not a blaze of glory You look down from your temple As people endeavor to make it a story And chisel a marble word But all is lost if it's never heard But I've got someone to make reports That tell me how my money's spent To book my stays and draw my blinds So I can't tell what's really there And all I need's a great big congratulations I'll keep your dreams You pay attention for me As strange as it seems I'd rather dissolve than have you ignore me The ground may be moving fast But I've tied my boots to a broken mast The difference is clear You throw it in your cauldron Rust and veneer, dusk and dawn Steinways and Baldwins You start with a simple stock Of all the waste and salt to taste But damn my luck and damn these friends That keep on combing back their smiles I save my grace with half-assed guilt And lay down the quilt upon the lawn Spread my arms and soak up congratulations

As I was slowly passing An orphan's home today I stopped for just a little while To watch the children play Alone a boy was standing And when I asked him why He turned with eyes that could not see And he began to cry I'm nobody's child I'm nobody's child Just like a flower I'm growing wild No momma's arms to hold me No daddy's smiles Nobody wants me I'm nobody's child In every town and village There are places just like this With rows and rows of children Babies in their cribs They've long since stopped their crying As no one ever hears And no one's there to notice them Or take away the fears Nobody's child Nobody's child Just like a flower They're growing wild Got no mommy's kisses And no daddy's smiles Nobody wants them They're nobody's child Nobody's child They're nobody's child Just like a flower They're growing wild No mommy's kisses And no daddy's smiles Nobody wants them They're nobody's child Nobody wants them They're nobody's child

It was late in the month of November She was loading up the wagon in the rain Said she'd be back in the morning But she never came through here again I'd see her in the market She never had much to spend These days the market's an old pile of mud And she never came through here again Maxine, Maxine, Maxine Time plays tricks on your memory It seems a long weekend She said she'd be back here by Monday But she never came through here again Some say a saucer landed And someone took her in They found her blue seraph here on the ground And she never cam through here again Maxine, Maxine, Maxine, Maxine Maxine, Maxine, Maxine, Maxine I bought a tabloid paper She was rumored to be in Was a photo of a woman on a llama But she never came through here again And if you should see her She may be old by then Tell her that I miss her and ask her when She's ever coming through here again

As I walk along I wonder what went wrong With our love, a love that was so strong And as I still walk on I think of the things we've done together Awhile our hearts were young I'm a-walkin' in the rain Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain Wishin' you were here by me To end this misery And I wonder I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder Why Why, why, why, why, why she ran away And I wonder Where she will stay My little runaway Run, run, run, run, runaway I'm a-walkin' in the rain Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain Wishin' you were here by me To end this misery And I wonder I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder Why Why, why, why, why, why she ran away And I wonder Where she will stay My little runaway Run, run, run, run, runaway Run, run, run, run, runaway Run, run, run, run, runaway Run, run, run, run, runaway