On Every Street lyrics by Dire Straits

Beautiful, sad song--- a detective is on the case of a woman's death/suicide, a woman with injured looks, no name, no fingerprints on file. Who is this woman? What caused her to do this? What was her life like? There has to be a clue to her identity somewhere, a record which will reveal her life history, the good and the bad of it, the mix of pleasure and pain. He looks for her face on every street. The world has gone crazy and he wonders why he's still on the case, and he thinks "what a waste -- why are you refusing to be traced." Every victory of solving other cases is bittersweet. So he is haunted by this woman and still looks for her face on every street.