When You Don't Have Anybody(Any Body Will Do)

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sad n trad...When You Don’t Have Anybody(Any Body Will Do)He saw her sippin’ Triple Sec, in a simple blouse n skirtTen years with her crooked ex, had robbed her youthful curvesThe deepest lonely of all, is lonely in a crowdSo when the barkeep said “last call”, that cowboy asked her outBy dawn he’d forgotten her, cos after all he drankWhat wasn’t just a blur, had faded to a blankBut when you don’t have anybody, any body will dokisses in the cold midnight, to warm and comfort youit’s there when your true love, proves to be untrueher breath on your skin, her beating heart withinwhen you don’t have anybody, any body will dohe looked like he worked out, down at Bally’s gymbut all he ever talked about, had to do with himstill, her life was a vacuum, so she fin’lly said “yes”filling that rented room, with shame n regretsbut for a while in the dark, at least his touch was realdrinkin’ had numbed her heart, to how good shame could feelcos when you don’t have anybody, any body will dokisses in the cold midnight, to warm and comfort youit’s there when your true love, proves to be untruehis breath on your skin, his beating heart withinwhen you don’t have anybody, any body will do©2007 Robert George