Doesn't Lenny Live Here Anymore - Phil Ochs

You laugh at the people who walk outside on the sidewalk

And you talk to yourself so much

When you see other people you can’t talk

This time it’s true

The charade is through

And you can’t seem to run away from you

Away from you

And the haggard ex-lover of a long-time loser

Stands rejectedly by the door

Doesn’t Lenny live here anymore?

Are you sure?

You sit at the desk

To lose your life in a letter

But the words don’t seem to come and you know that they’re better

And it’s all so strange

Pictures lose their frame

And I’ll bet you never guessed

There was so much pain

So much pain

Until the haggard ex-lover of a long-time loser

Stands rejectedly by the door

Doesn’t Lenny live here anymore?

Are you sure?

The moon, she shines too soon and simply sadly

You loved your love so much that you’d strangle her madly

And it’s all so slow

Time has ceased to flow

And the whistling whore knows something you don’t know

And the haggard ex-lover of a long-time loser

Stands rejectedly by the door

Doesn’t Lenny live here anymore?

Are you sure?

You swore you’d store your love for one time only

Now you searched the books in vain for better word for lonely

And you’re torn apart

No other love will start

And you, you’d like to steal a happy heart

A happy heart

Then the haggard ex-lover of a long-time loser

Stands rejectedly by the door

Doesn’t Lenny live here anymore?

Are you sure?

The fat official smiles at the pass on the border

And the hungry broom makes sure that the room is in order

You pull the shade

All the beds are made

As your lips caress the razor of the blade

Of the blade

And the haggard ex-lover of a long-time loser

Stands rejectedly by the door

Doesn’t Lenny live here anymore?

Are you sure?

The soul of the sun shines just outsde of the winter

The shoulders charged, the boards of the barricade is splintered

Now at last alone

The flashlight is shown

Hello, inside, is there anybody home?

Anybody home?

It’s the haggard ex-lover of a long-time loser

Standing rejectedly by the door

Doesn’t Lenny live here anymore?

Are you sure?

Are you sure?

Are you sure?