Tears form a puddle on the pillow She rest her head on but he don't care And the smell of sour mildew briefly overwhelms her Just a small town girl in a lonely world With a lifetime of suffering already endured And it's time to run away Before he puts you in the ground now
Now she don't know where she's going She's just gotta get away from here Cuz everything that's ever been familiar to her Is fading fast in the rearview mirror Too long she was stronger Than the concrete floor but he broke her foundation And she's cold And sore And she's 54 miles from another new beginning
Lonely nights turn into lonely days Empty tanks turn into empty ways Underwater where she says she stays Empty nights turn into empty ways
And she sees his face when She closes her eyes with his smoke stained teeth And a look of surprise When he finally realizes that she put that life behind her But those teardrops fall on the deafest ears But they'll never understand what you felt for years
And the air's so cold that she can see her breath around her Now she don't know what she's feelin But it sure ain't free As she lies there awake in the city of sin With a needle singing her to sleep That song she was singing right before She cried the big puddle of tears from the pain inside And another lost cause finds another new beginning (Because those)
Lonely nights turn into lonely days Empty tanks turn into an empty ways On her knees is where she says she prays Empty nights turn into empty ways