Paper Gown

[00:12.58] Small town stars shine bright for a day
[00:14.43] The moon lights up a watery grave
[00:18.70] Woods move in the nighttime breeze
[00:24.82] That lifts from the lake through the trees
[00:30.03] On the night that defined my name
[00:34.68] Fantasy or monster, you say
[00:39.38] Watched my boys ride the incline down
[00:44.65] All for a paper gown
[00:49.89] Long ago I used to be
[00:54.33] A little girl on my daddy's knee
[00:59.07] Dreams lie like diamond rings
[01:03.16] Babies and pretty things
[01:14.35] I watched my car sink silently
[01:20.03] My lover's sweatshirt wrapped around me
[01:24.85] On a black man I blamed the crime
[01:30.04] With moans and screams and cries
[01:35.10] Then I waited for him to call
[01:39.56] My ready-made family gone after all
[01:45.57] While the world mourned an alibi
[01:49.91] My hopes began to die
[01:55.18] Long ago I used to be
[01:59.65] A little girl on my daddy's knee
[02:04.11] Dreams lie like diamond rings
[02:08.63] Babies and pretty things
[02:18.31] Day by day
[02:22.18] All the promises faded away
[02:26.99] No one but me
[02:31.49] Controls my destiny
[03:00.49] The sheriff sat me down to pray
[03:04.22] At the First Baptist Church on the ninth day
[03:11.13] "Susan, make your conscience clean"
[03:14.68] "Sheriff, I've done a terrible thing"
[03:20.25] I confessed that, for love's sake,
[03:24.44] I drowned my children in John D. Long Lake
[03:30.50] They're with Jesus, looking down
[03:34.89] At me in this paper gown
[03:39.92] Long ago I used to be
[03:44.48] A little girl on my daddy's knee
[03:49.15] Dreams lie like diamond rings
[03:53.22] Babies and pretty things
[03:54.01] Long ago I used to be
[04:03.12] A little girl with dreams I believed
[04:08.09] Dreams lie like diamond rings
[04:11.97] Babies and pretty things
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