No One

Who do you call on when you have no one?

Who do you call on

When you have no one?

This might not be nice to say

But I'll say it anyway

When you have no one

You are no one

I used to work at the people pound

I used to watch them line up

Some sleeping on the ground

Their diabetic bellies gleaming, fat and round

When you have no one

You are no one

Like I said, I used to work at the people pound

All these no ones put together

Just like a human lost and found

If they let them all be someones

There wouldn't be enough to go around

It's better for us all that there are no ones

And I knew a lot of no ones 'round that time

They used to all be someones until something took their life

And all of their someones disappeared while they're stuck waiting in a line

And for them now, no one seems to have the time

I knew someone who had a disease

And it took away all that mattered

His brain and dignity

And I tried my best to fight it off, to try to set him free

Now that someone is no one to me

Who do you call on when you have no one?

Who do you call on when you have no one?

This might not be nice to say

But I'll say it anyways

When you have no one

You are no one

And it takes no one to know one