Nobody's Child

She was born on a dead end street
 Half a mile from the freeway sign
 Growing up in a house that was never a home, all alone
 She never had too much to say
 It didn't matter anyway
 Ain't no one to hear you
 When you're on your own, oh no
 And the road gets longer as the night goes on.
 Now you're running yet you're crying
 Falling faster than you fly
 And the demons just beside you
 Come swift and wild when you're nobody's child
 There's a heartache like the devil at your side
 And the danger is the dark and lonely night
 When you're nobody's child.
 He was raised as an army brat
 He never stayed in one place too long
 Moving town to town he never knew a soul
 Had nothing to show but Mama left when he was a boy
 His dad said better act your age
 One night he just walked away alone
 Now he's long gone
 And the road gets longer as life goes on.
 Now you're running yet you're crying
 Falling faster than you fly
 And the demons just beside you
 Come swift and wild when you're nobody's child
 There's a heartache like the devil at your side
 And the danger is the dark and lonely night
 When you're nobody's child.
 Some people get lucky
 And that's the way it goes
 And some people never find their way back home.
 Now you're running yet you're crying
 Falling faster than you fly
 And the demons just beside you
 Come swift and wild when you're nobody's child
 There's a heartache like the devil at your side
 And the danger is the dark and lonely night
 When you're nobody's child