It was an early morning bar room   And the place just opened up   And the little man come in so fast and it   Started at his cups      And the broad who served the whiskey   She was a big old friendly girl   And tried to fight her empty nights   By smilin' at the world      And she said "Hey Bub, It's been awhile   Since you been around   Where the hell you been hidin'?   And why you look so down ?      The little man just sat there like he'd never heard a sound   The waitress she gave out with a cough   Acting not the least put off   She spoke once again      She said, "I don't want to bother you   Consider it's understood   I know I'm not no beauty queen   But I sure can listen good"      And the little man took his drink in his hand   And he raised it to his lips   He took a couple of sips   And he told that waitress this story      I am the midnight watchman down at Miller's Tool and Die   And I watch the metal rusting, I watch the time go by   A week ago at the Diner, I stopped to get a bite   And this here lovely lady she sat two seats from my right   And Lord, Lord, Lord   She was alright      You see, she was so damned beautiful she could warm a winter's frost   But she looked long past lonely, and well nigh kinda lost   Now I'm not much of a mover or a pick-em-up easy guy   But I decided to glide on over and give her one good try   And Lord, Lord, Lord   She was worth a try      And I was tongued-tied like a school boy   I stammered out some words   It did not seem to matter much 'cause I don't think she heard   She just looked clear on through me to a space back in my head   And it shamed me into silence, as quietly she said      'If you want me to come with you that's all right with me   'Cause I know I'm going nowhere and anywhere's a better place to be   Anywhere's a better place to be'      When I drove her to my boarding house and I took her up to my room   And I went to turn on the only light to brighten up the gloom   But she said, "Please leave the light off, oh, I don't mind the dark"   And as her clothes all tumbled 'round her, I could hear my heart      The moonlight shown upon her as she lay back in my bed   It was the kind of scene I only had imagined in my head   I just could not believe it, to think that she was real   And as I tried to tell her she said, "I know just how you feel      And if you want to come here with me that's all right with me   'Cause I've been oh so lonely, lovin' someone is a better way to be   Anywhere's a better way to be"      When the morning came so swiftly I held her in my arms   She slept like a baby, snug and safe from harm   I did not want to share her or dare to break the mood   So before she woke I went out to buy us both some food   I came back with my paper bag to find that she was gone   She'd left a six word letter saying, 'It's time that I moved on'      You know the waitress took her bar rag   And she wiped it across her eyes   And as she spoke her voice came out as something like a sigh   She said, "I wish that I was beautiful or that you were halfway blind   And I wish I weren't so goddamned fat, I wish that you were mine   And I wish that you'd come with me when I leave for home   For we both know all about emptiness and livin' all alone"      And the little man   Looked at the empty glass in his hand   And he smiled a crooked grin   He said, "I guess I'm out of gin   And I know we both have been so lonely      And if you want me to come with you that's all right with me   'Cause I know I'm goin' nowhere and anywhere's a better place to be'"