John Doe Lyrics

They found him in the gutter

Ain't nobody knew his name

There was no ID

And no one came to claim

The young man or his guitar

That laid all night in the cold

Or that piece of paper

The last words that he wrote

He said I'll always love you

We both know it's true

I'm not the first to feel this way

About someone like you

And nowadays I'm just lookin'

For the one I hope to see

The day I get over

You gettin' over me

He wrote I tried but I just couldn't write a song for you this time

'Cause I can't think no more about how your love for me died

And I still try to do the things I should to make it through

But I could spend a lifetime gettin' over you

When his time was up

His new name was John Doe

And he got laid to rest

With just a number and a row

And it made you kind of wonder

Where his story had its start

And if he died from the cold

Or from a broken heart

And they wrote it in the paper

About his circumstance

A story of how they found him

With his guitar in his hands

And you know they went and quoted

Those words to her he wrote

Do you think he would have wanted that

And will she ever know

He wrote I tried but I just couldn't write a song for you this time

'Cause I can't think no more about how your love for me died

And I still try to do the things I should to make it through

But I could spend a lifetime gettin' over you

He wrote I tried but I just couldn't write a song for you this time

'Cause I can't think no more about how your love for me died

And I still try to do the things I should to make it through

But I could spend a lifetime gettin' over you

They found him in the gutter

Ain't nobody knew his name