What To Say
What
do you say to a girl who walks alone?
She says she doesn’t want friends, but she
doesn’t want home.
Her day isn’t finished until she’s cried for a
while,
You can’t expect a girl like that to walk with a
smile.
She doesn’t look herself without sadness in her
eye,
And if you watch long enough, you can see it in her
stride.
You’d expect a girl like that to have arms right
beneath her,
But the only arms around, don’t care enough to reach
her.
I wonder what she dreams of when she lays down to rest.
She wouldn’t keep it a secret, but its not hard to
guess.
She says sometimes she dreams of what it’d be like to
have wings.
You’d expect a girl like that to wish for such
things.
What do you say to a girl who can’t find her smile?
You don’t say a word, you let her talk for a while.
Don’t tell her anything, just let her tell you,
All you should convince her of, is that she’ll g
e t t h r o u g h
.
mine.