Girl

Music and Lyrics by Tori Amos

 

From in the shadow she calls 
And in the shadow she finds a way finds a way
And in the shadow she CRAWLS 
Clutching her faded photograph my image UNDER her thumb 
Yes with a message for my heart 
Yes with a message for my heart

She's been everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own
Everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own

And in the doorway they stay 
And laugh as violins fill with water 
Screams from the BLUEBELLS can't make them go away
We'll I'm not seventeen but I've cuts on my knees 
Falling down as the winter takes one more CHERRY TREE 

She's been everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own
Everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own

Everyone else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own
rushin' rivers thread so thin limitation 
Everyone else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own
dreams with the flying pigs turbid blue and the drugstores too safe in their
   coats and in their do's yeah 
Everyone else's girl maybe one day maybe one day one day one day she'll be
   her own
smother in our hearts a pillow to my dots

And in the mist there she rides 
And castles are burning in my heart 
And as I twist I hold tight 
And I ride to work every morning wondering why
"Sit in the chair and be good now"
and become all that they told you 
the white coats enter her room
and I'm callin' my baby callin' my baby callin' my baby callin'
Everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own
Everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own
Everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own