: Once we ran and lived as one In another world, my little one Where whispering trees and dark rivers run I told a dream to you Now outside the streets
: We left the toys out in the yard I took my wife and kids and left my home unguarded We packed what we could into the car No one here knows how it started
: It's cloudy out in Pittsburgh It's raining in Saigon Snow's fallin' all across the Michigan line Well she sits by the lights of the Christmas tree
: Well ever since you were a little girl You set the rules in your little world But girls grow up and throw their toys away You're a big girl now but
: We met out on open streets when we had no place to go I remember how my heart beat when you said I love you so Then little by little we choked out
: Early North Jersey industrial skyline I'm an all-set cobra jet creepin' through the night time Gotta find a gas station, gotta find a pay phone This
: When we fight and I wanna talk it out You won't say nothing, nothing at all You just sit there, you won't open that pretty mouth I think you like keeping
: Last night I dreamed we was running through the outlands Tears streaming, your pretty face all a wreck (I held your daddy's gun in my tremblin' hands
: I hear the guitars ringin' out Ringin' out down Union Street I hear the lead singer shoutin' out, girl I wanna be a slave to the beat Yeah, tonight
: Your scrapbook's filled with pictures of all your leading men Well baby don't put my picture in there with them Don't make us some little girl's dream
: Let the frozen cities crumble, crumble and fall That's alright, I don't mind at all Let 'em all tumble right into the sea Well that's just fine, that
: Well look out mama, your little girl she has changed She cut her baby curls and she's got her act rearranged Well look out daddy, what she needs now
: Born down in a dead man's town The first kick I took was when I hit the ground You end up like a dog that's been beat too much Till you spend half
black night And I'm telling myself I'm gonna be alright But I ride by night and I travel in fear That in this darkness I will disappear Alternate version on Tracks
: The runway rushed up at him as he felt the wheels touch down He stood out on the blacktop and took a taxi into town He got out down on Main Street
: She drew out all her money from the Southern Trust And put her little boy on a Greyhound Bus Leaving Memphis with a guitar in his hand On a one-way
It's cloudy out in Pittsburgh It's raining in Saigon Snow's fallin' all across the Michigan line Well she sits by the lights of the Christmas tree With
