Alone upon the sidewalks of despairIt was there she wanderedWith her suitcase in her handAnd her paint she ponderedOnly a go-go girl in loveWith someone who didn't careShe met him on a night so rareWhen her friends were thereAnd the band was groovingWhen he gave a glanceThat said how much he would like to meet herHow was she to know at the timeHe wouldn't mistreat herIn her cage a dance for himAlthough a hundred eyes had turned her awayAnd before the set was throughHe knew she would be his loved oneOnly a go-go girl in loveWith someone who didn't careOnly twenty-oneShe was a young girlWho'd just been from somewhereHe's playing up in MichiganIn a group they call the intendedWith a kiss and a promise he was goneOnly twenty-one she was a young girlThe song was endedBut as she walks away for himThe pavement is a shoulder for her tearsAnd in her heart she knowsThere is no way she can hope to change himOnly a go-go girl in loveWith someone who didn't careOnly twenty-oneShe was a young girlWho'd just been from somewhereOnly a go-go girl in loveWith someone who didn't careA go-go girl in love