Erin by Jill Hennessy
Erin lyrics
where are you going?
could i meet you? got a late shift tonight
i�d feel better if i could go with you -
to the rail�
up the stairs�
to the perfumed back room where the girls all comb
their hair -
to the bar with black light she downs shots
to feel right about the business suits,
the laughing men,
the hungry eyes,
she turns again to make sure that i�m still waiting
there by the door
then she dances some more, all alone on the floor
erin doesn�t like to be alone so i play her bodyguard
�til she gets home - her platinum hair in a broken
band, her cigarette lit, we walk hand in hand and catch
the night train and try to laugh all the truth away -
she says how do you do it? i don�t think i�m smart - i
got no one behind me, i can�t feel my heart but i try
to use whatever god gave me, try to save up my money
and someday maybe i won�t hear my father�s footsteps
behind my door � i won�t hear them no more
so she dances some more, high heels scraping the floor
she never talked about you in those 3 am calls when
she�d throw her new plates at her sea foam green walls
trying to buy some new lies from that smug pusher-whore
with his preppy blond hair who i kicked out the door,
her pretty blue eyes ringed in black and red as she
crumples again at the foot of her bed but I know�what
you did
and she dances some more, all alone on the floor, her
tired ballet for the poor, and i just wait by the door
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