Malvina
Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems
Nobody
Notes: words and music
by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1958 Schroder Music Company, renewed 1986.
Who's there?
Nobody, Nobody.
Who's there?
Nobody, Nobody.
Stand, Nobody,
And give the password.
Nothing, Nothing,
That's the password.
Chorus:
Nobody, Nobody,
Where you going?
Going no place at all.
Turn right at the next corner,
Straight on down the hall.
Nobody, Nobody,
What's on your mind?
Nobody, Nobody,
What's on your mind?
Nothing there but an empty roar,
Something that happened long before.
(Chorus)
Nobody, Nobody,
What you eating?
Nobody, Nobody,
What you eating?
Eating wind like a fast pacer,
Eating my heart with a whiskey chaser.
(Chorus)
Nobody, Nobody,
What you doing?
Nobody, Nobody,
What you doing?
Emptying the ocean with a leaky pan,
Keeping tally on the edge of the sand.
(Chorus)
Nobody, Nobody
Casts no shadow,
Nobody, Nobody,
Casts no shadow.
Casts no shadow and leaves no track,
Goes nowhere and never comes back.
(Chorus)