Little Collette

歌詞

She was tired of being his little Collette Face pressed to the screen, cheeks always wet And the mountain's heart cracked open wide And gave her a blood-red trail to ride And she woke with her head in the snake catcher's lap Bouncing in tango on her endless tack And he bought her a coke and a bag of chips And said come on cookie and puckered his lips And how can you say you'll never go back When every new day mirrors the past You wonder how different it might have been If you'd just stayed put way back when, Collette Ah but you see it all now like it was written on your palm That was someone else's story, you just went along Like you were born with no will of your own And life blew you around till you threshed out a home And now you're a woman with arms grown long From reaching for things you could never own From holding yourself alone through the night From pushing a heavy heart up so many flights And how can you say you'll never go back When every new day mirrors the past Four in the morning channel changer in your hand Sleeping like the innocent next to someone else's man, Collette Ah but then you were born once again like a cat Poking your head between the gristle and fat Hungry, clean as a newborn babe Talking a blue streak, nobody's slave And in the mirror your new face betrays every idea Before you have time to recognize your fear And you walk on the carpet through your living room Tender flower bloom Collette Collette