Lyrics

The Loneliest Creature in the World

She had a mother, she had a father
A husband who loved her and a fine little daughter
But sometimes at night, she’d wake up and cry
I’m the loneliest creature in the world

What makes her so lonely, she couldn’t say
She wonders if everyone feels it this way
Searching the faces on the streetcar
They’re the loneliest creatures in the world

In Bleeker street ghetto she knocks on a door
The woman there answers, she’s been here before
She comes on Tuesdays eleven to two
For conversation and homemade Arabian stew

Sila was married when she was sixteen
To a friend of her father’s, she’d never seen
Forty years later, she’s learning to read
In a country far across the sea

I got nothing to give her, nothing to say
To bring back the years they took away
But she tells me she’s glad that I came
The loneliest creature in the world
We’re the loneliest creatures in the world

But I got a mother, I got a father
A husband who loves me and a fine little daughter