Did you cry when they dragged you home

Put a lock on the door and the telephone

Was a runaway girl all they could see?...



Have the nights and the days that you've come through

Made the right seem wrong and the false seem true

And was a runaway girl all they could see...

A teenage extra from the satellite TV



Runaway girl

Too bad Too bad

Runaway girl

Too wild Too wild



Were they deaf to the prayer behind your lies

Maybe they didn't care to ask you why

Was a runaway girl all they choose to see

All they were prepared to admit to



Runaway girl

Too bad Too bad

Runaway girl

Real wild child



So you cower in the towns forgotten places

And make your bed with unfamiliar faces

And at last you've got your freedom but that's all you've got

You're tryin' to make up your mind up if you're better off



You pretend to wait for washing in some laundromat

But you're damned if you'll give them the satisfaction of you going

back

You'd freeze before you'd share a roof with them

And you'd starve before you'd let him get his hands on you again



Did you cry when they dragged you home?

Poor little runaway