She lives her life in honky tonks and the crowded backstreet bars
A world of make believe that knows no sun no moon or stars
Just a glitter of a great white way and the glamor of city lights

Where the music's loud she's in the crowd a lonely girl in the night
I wonder if she's thinking of dreams that didn't last
I wonder if she's haunted by heartaches from the past
Perhaps there is a story of a love that wasn't right
Now those shadows hide her empty pride a lonely in the night
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I watch her sit there so lonely as she lights her cigarette
And the smoke rings rise but in her eyes oh it seems to be such a regret
Yes she's there to tempt her lover and that dress that hugs her tight
With a glass of wine to pass a time just a lonely girl in the night
I wonder if she's thinking...