When No One Cares

The title song for Sinatra’s 1959 album No One Cares — one of his great late-night heartbreak records, a companion piece to Only the Lonely. Cahn’s lyric inhabits the loneliest emotional territory he ever explored, and Sinatra delivers it with the quiet devastation of a man who has been there.

Where Only the Lonely is about isolation, this is about invisibility — the particular pain of feeling that no one in the world would notice if you disappeared.