The song Some People's Lives* is performed by Janis Ian in the album named Best of Janis Ian - The Autobiography Collection in the year 2008 .
Some people's lives run down like clocks
One day they stop and that's all they've got
Some lives wear out like old tennis shoes
No one can use, well, it's sad but it's true
Didn't anybody tell them?
Didn't anybody see?
Didn't anybody love them
Like you love me?
Some people's lives fade like their dreams
Too tired to rise, too tired to sleep
Some people laugh when they need to cry
And they never know why
Didn't anybody tell them
That's not how it has to be?
Didn't anybody love them
Like you love me?
Some people ask if the tears have to fall
Then why take your chances? Why bother at all?
And some people's lives are as cold as their lips
They just need to be kissed
Doesn't anybody tell them?
Doesn't anybody see?
Doesn't anybody love them
Like you love me?
'Cause that's all they need
Janis Ian - Best of Janis Ian - The Autobiography Collection
- Hair of Spun Gold
- god and the fbi*
- Society's Child
- Haven't I Got Eyes
- This Train Still Runs
- Arms Around My Life
- His Hands*
- When Angels Cry
- My Tennessee Hills
- Every Love
- Some People's Lives*
- Stolen Fire
- Days Like These*
- Tattoo
- Through The Years*
- I Hear You Sing Again
- I Long For You*
- Ginny the Flying Girl
- Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye
- Today You're Mine*
- Silly Habits
- Jesse
- Stars
- Thankyous
- At Seventeen - album version
- Love Is Blind
- Fly Too High
- Joy
- My Autobiography
- Hair of Spun Gold (Janis' very first demo, sung into her father's tape recorder in 1963)
- At Seventeen