In a building I pa** by in window number five There's a little girl looking down at me Her mom was never married, so the baby that she carried Doesn't have a last name you see Her mama calls her Joan nobody's ever known Any other name to call her by Her mama's gone all night on the streets till daylight But there's a light on in window number five In window number five there's a picture of an angel She doesn't seem to know that her life is just a tangle I can't give her a name and I feel so ashamed, you see I've already got a wife And a little girl at home just like the one alone that's crying in window number five Through the window pane she looks out at the rain And pulls back the window shade to see I recall with regret the night I can't forget From that window her mama smiled at me And for climbing up those steps I can only blame myself But I didn't know the price was so high But the one who'll pay the most is the one who doesn't know The little girl in window number five In window number five there's a picture of an angel She doesn't seem to know that her life is just a tangle I can't give her a name and I feel so ashamed, you see I've already got a wife And a little girl at home just like the one alone that's crying in window number five