Eleanor Young



Eleanor young

Eleanor child

Standing on a lonely hilltop

In the Appalachian Wild



Eleanor sing

Eleanor scream

Shout loud to your own green world

Doors don’t open for the country girl



Oh they lied to you

They sung to you songs you weren’t meant to hear

They showed you a life your eyes were never meant to see

You should have seen right through it

But you believed



Eleanor grow

Eleanor cold

Midnight in a dim lit diner

In the driving Detroit snow



Eleanor yearn

Oh Eleanor learn

One child with no last name

Your boy’s on the run

Who do you blame



Oh they lied to you

He did to you things that you were taught were sin

He took from you the best that was within you

He showed you things your eyes were never meant to see



But the saddest thing of all

Is baby you believed

Yeah yeah

The saddest thing of all you believed

Yeah mama you believed



Eleanor age

Eleanor cage

See California on New Years Day

Sun shines warm on the rose parade

Eleanor ache

Eleanor break



Come out west

With your last born child

Grew up scared and weird and wild



Oh you lied to me

You hid from me knowledge I should have known

You kept from me the life that was my own

You shielded me from pains I should have seen



For a very short while

Mama I believed

Yeah mama I believed