Over the Rhine Album: Ohio Track: Nobody Number One
Nobody Number One Lyrics
Words: Detweiler Music: Bergquist/Detweiler
I'm afraid I've lost the piece of me I need the most you see This puzzle is really just about the need To be somebody I'm afraid I'm not all that you see All along the coast of me I'm camouflaged, a desert mirage A nobody
But you came so close and I assumed You were looking For the piece of yourself that's lost It is the hiding place inside everybody And though we love to numb the pain We come to learn that it's in vain Pain is our mother She makes us recognize each other
C'mon now child don't cry C'mon now child don't cry Let's give it one more try C'mon now child don't cry
Sometimes I feel so all alone Here in this city I call my home They say, Hey, you're one of us Funny, I should feel so anonymous But I'm drawn to you And that still small voice is talking too And that's the voice that so seldom can get through
You can't put no bandaid on this cancer Like a twenty-dollar bill For a topless dancer You need questions Forget about the answers Do you really wanna die this way
That's the trouble with you and me We always hit the bottom 'fore we get set free I'm so far down I'm beginning to breathe
C'mon now child don't cry C'mon now child don't cry Let's give it one more try C'mon now child don't cry Cuz we're just too young to die
