Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and out)

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Rating	Comments	Author	Date
	For me this song demonstrates the contrast between Lennon's Plastic Ono Band album and this album. After the despair, rage, hope, etc. which was honestly expressed in Walls and Bridges this closing song comes in as very sincere and resigned and I come away very sympathetic towards John. If this same song had closed out the self-pitied whining and arrogant proclomations of JL-POB, it would not have rung true for me at all.	Bruce Beatlefan	March 28, 2006

Lyrics

Nobody loves you when you're down and out
Nobody sees you when you're on cloud nine
Everybody's hustlin' for a buck and a dime
I'll scratch your back and you scratch mine

I've been across to the other side
I've shown you everything, I got nothing to hide
And still you ask me do I love you, what it is, what it is
All I can tell you is it's all show biz
All I can tell you is it's all show biz

Nobody loves you when you're down and out
Nobody knows you when you're on cloud nine
Everybody's hustlin' for a buck and a dime
I'll scratch your back and you knife mine

I've been across the water now so many times
I've seen the one eyed witchdoctor leading the blind
And still you ask me do I love you, what you say, what you say
Everytime I put my finger on it, it slips away
Everytime I put my finger on it, it slips away

Well I get up in the morning and I'm looking in the mirror to see, ooo wee!
Then I'm lying in the darkness and I know I can't get to sleep, ooo wee!

Nobody loves you when you're old and grey
Nobody needs you when you're upside down
Everybody's hollerin' 'bout their own birthday
Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground

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