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 clumped 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 if they 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 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