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Girl on the Street
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Rodney Crowell
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She spied me through the traffic and was on me in a flash Some soft soaked out-of-towner and an easy mark for cash In contrast to her ragged cloak of filth and disrepair Was a dark-eyed mystic beauty and a raven shock of hair With what was feral frantic motion, her every move was laced With the kind of desperation born of demons not yet faced Quite clearly she was hounded by some not-to-distant-past That was feasting on each moment like it just might be her last The girl on the street was once somebody's daughter Yeah, the girl on the street was once somebody's friend The girl on the street, one more lamb led to the slaughter Where for three dimes and a quarter she gets nothing in the end She hit me up with hunger, first things first you know But a little too coquettish for my sympathies to show She offered up her favors with a nod below the belt And a parting shot at pity for the cards that she'd been dealt "Its dope" said I, "Be truthful, its right there in your eyes You know that stuff will kill you it's a loaded pack of lies" She rolled her sleeve and slapped her vein and spat out "Three months clean Don't pretend you know me, man. just cough up something green" The girl on the street was once somebody's daughter The girl on the street was once somebody's friend The girl on the street found you tailor made to order And for three dimes and a quarter you get nothing in the end So with the loose change in my pocket I let myself off light When I could have helped her find some food and shelter for the night Compassion for the dope sick twenty-something whore Hit way too close to home for me to open up that door So please don't say, "Go easy, so what if you came up short?" I might have made a difference if I only had the heart The girl on the street was once somebody's daughter Yeah, the girl on the street was once somebody's friend The girl on the street, in spite of everything they taught her Gone for three dimes and a quarter and you still lose her in the end
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