Lonely ol' nightjohn mellencampshe calls me up and says baby it's a lonely ol' nighti don't know i'm just so scared and lonely all at the same timenobody told us it was gonna work out this way no, no, no, no, noi guess they knew we'd work it out in our own waychorusit's a lonely ol' nightcan i put my arms around youit's a lonely ol' nightcustom made for two lonely people like me and youradio playing softly some singer's sad sad songhe's singing about standing in the shadows of lovei guess he feels awfully aloneshe says i know exactly what he means yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeahand it's a sad, sad feeling when you're living on those in-betweensbut it's okaychorusshe calls me baby she calls everybody babyit's a lonely ol' night but ain't they allchorus