No One Cares About Me - John Mellencamp

Well my wife she took off to Memphis

With some fella from our little town

My mother’s at home up in Baltimore

And my daddy is down in the ground

It gets awfully cold here in the winter

Hot and humid in the summer time

I got laid off on account there’s no work for me

Now I’m in the unemployment line

No one cares about me

No one cares about me

No one cares about me at all

If I had to guess

It’s because I’m spotty at best

No one cares about me at all

Well my kids they’ve all scattered

Went lookin' for a better life

Lost one of my boys to the drug man

It’s the only time I’ve cried in my life

And I knew an old guy once

He was kind of my friend

But he smoked himself to death

And they buried him out at Riverview

Now I’m all that I’ve got left

No one cares about me

No one cares about me

No one cares about me at all

If I had to guess

It’s because I’m spotty at best

No one cares about me at all

Some day I’ll go look up my brother

He lives a few miles from here

Haven’t talked to him in quite some time

I guess it’s been six or seven years

Well he works out there at the cannery

And I think he makes a pretty good pay

His wife she never thought too much of me

So I just stayed away

No one cares about me

No one cares about me

No one cares about me at all

If I had to guess

It’s because I’m spotty at best

No one cares about me at all

Well it’s hard to say what kind of fella I am

But most the time nothing goes my way

I must have done something pretty wrong

But I still think it will work out okay

There surely must be some angels around the bend

And they’re trying to get to me

I’ll catch up with them pretty soon

But for now no one cares about me

No one cares about me

No one cares about me

No one cares about me at all

If I had to guess

It’s because I’m spotty at best

No one cares about me at all