Nobody Knows Me ‘Round Here
words and music by Kim Wilson (Alador)
There’s a house by the tracks at the edge of town
A thousand miles from here
A picture hangs crooked on a dirty wall
It’s a clown with a frozen tear
It's a house not a home, not a place to live
With a heart that’s gone and died
I could not make it live again
Although I swear I tried
And nobody knows me ‘round here
Nobody knows me ‘round here
They call me a name I made up on the train
But nobody knows me ‘round here
I walked from the station in the pouring rain
Checked into this old hotel
Folks back home that knew me they think that I’m
Dead on my way to hell
I slept in a bed with a big iron frame
And dreamed of a marble stair
Awoke in a sweat in cold dark room
With a scar that I’ll always wear
And nobody knows me ‘round here
Nobody knows me ‘round here
They call me a name I made up on the train
But nobody knows me ‘round here
The dead and gone are dead and gone
While the living wait their turn
Nothing comes of the work and strife
And never a lesson’s learned
I asked her a question on the night I left
I said how does a poor boy die
She said if I told you the thing that I know
I would just be spreading a lie
And nobody knows me ‘round here
Nobody knows me ‘round here
They call me a name I made up on the train
But nobody knows me ‘round here
I will be listening to others. Good job here Alador. Doug