She never knew she was a beauty She must have made a lot of grown men cry In her eyes she's always playing out some movie She just told a dying love goodbye
She was innocent then, blind to any hell No one knows what she did and she'll never tell I wonder if she lied where she came from Though she never nailed her memories to the wall
On the fire cardboard boxes in the alley? Useless hand-me-downs in the closet and the hall And she lives in a home in three years she'll probably sel And what she remembers she'll never tell
I dreamt I saw her whispering to me So discreetly Maybe some secret song for me to know, the best unspoken
She barely prays above a whisper And when she cries she doesn't make a sound She offers tive but never takes communion So scared to death of jesus finding out
When she's nervous she checks and somehow the town will tell What she screams in the pillow she'll never tell What she screams in the pillow she'll never tell