Shopping Bag Lady

Down the alley where a cold wind blows
Sits a woman huddled in her clothes
With a helpless look that pains her face
Burdened down with shopping bags
Of hand-me-downs and worn-out rags she found
I never heard her make a sound

No one knows from where she came
Left abandoned without a name
All alone in a sea of a thousand tears
And her future looks mighty grim
As the closing years move in
She stares, broken from the weight she bеars

Shopping bag lady carries
All her sorrow with such lonely еyes
She lost her family ties
Shopping bag lady must have
Had a man who upped and died on you
Ya must have been a mother, too
But you choose not to remember
After all life has put you through

From the rain so she don't get drenched
To the shelter of a subway bench
Her rosary lay trampled in the dust
Hope is shattered like a window pane
Left abandoned without a name
She's lost, like a penny, life's been tossed

Shopping bag lady carries
All her sorrow with such lonely eyes
She lost her family ties
Shopping bag lady must have
Had a man who upped and died on you
Ya must have been a mother, too
But you choose not to remember
After all life has put you through
And it hurts to see that shopping bags
And rags are all that remain of you

Shopping bag lady
Shopping bag lady
Shopping bag lady
Shopping bag lady
Shopping bag lady
Shopping bag lady