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We all want to be wanted
Just once to have somebody say
"You don't have to go
Are you sure you must leave
Baby, oh why don't you stay?"
Just once to hear somebody say
"Can you hold on one minute
While I catch my breath
And I'll journey with you
Whatever the way.
Yes, I'll be beside you
And let come what may."
And I was once just like the rest.
Nobody wants to be lonely
Nobody wants to watch everyone leave
Watching their life fall through a sieve
Sifted, threshed, and blown away.
Just once to hear somebody speak
"I'm not ready to go yet
I'll linger a while
I'm not that tired,
I'll stay one more mile."
Just once to feel somebody's heat.
And I was once just like the rest.
But none of it ever came true
I'm just as forgotten as you
The cubicle without a view
The long list of things I would do
If someone would travel along
But no one is singing my song
Or I'm singing one no one else is.
Perhaps I am haunted
Forever unwanted
And a bit lonely, that too.