Pre In a lonely house in the woods she was raised Verse At school she drifted, all alone. In the forest she claimed her throne. She had a garden of her own, And a zoo she called her home. With a mouse and a slowworm there, A snail, a beetle in her care, Loving all with all her might, Month and year, day and night. Chorus She was Red-haired beauty green eyes shining bright If you came too close She would scratch, like a cat getting loose Verse 3 With the years she grew more bright Girls would whisper, boys would dream at night She had a guitar, old but nice The forest was her choir in every size In leaves that whispered soft and low In water's gentle, winding flow In trees that sighed, in birds that called She found her songs through seasons all Verse 4 The house came down, was torn away A bypass road replaced her stay Her garden buried under stone School was done, she stood alone At sixteen years she found her way Serving coffee from day to day The guests came, and came again Her new garden, now was them Chorus 2 The guitar hung by the door sometimes she would play a song - or two- when the guests asked for more and she could sing the whole night long Verse 5 In the years she took control The diner grew, goal by goal Offers came from left and right But church floors never felt quite right She kept her Independence to the end Her eyes showed, what her heart knew For deep inside, she understood Her real choir, was, in the quiet wood Chorus She was Red-haired beauty green eyes shining bright If you came too close She would scratch, like a cat getting loose She would scratch, like a cat getting loose
