Pretty Girl

There's a pretty girl at the edge of town
She stole my heart but I don't know how
'Cuz I build a wall that's hard to break
But I could see it crumble from the things she'd say

Janie works till about six o'clock
I count the hours till she gets off
She makes me dinner, we shoot small talk
I try to show some interest in her wild thoughts

She says you can make me smile, you can make me bleed
You can make me see the things that I don't like about me
You can make me laugh until I cry
But boy don't pretend you know what it's like

Janie's got a problem, we don't talk about it much
Addiction overshadows everything she's done
I try to help but it's never enough
The pain in her veins is forever stuck

She says my life is just like an open sea
I'm lying in a shipwreck somewhere deep
Maybe someday I will be found
But babe I got a feeling that it ain't right now

Janie fell asleep lying in my arms
When I left her house it was dark
I got a call around midnight
Janie went flying but she flew too high

That pretty girl at the edge of town
I think about her every night the sun goes down
Who gets to be her lover now
Oh, what the hell, it doesn't matter anyhow