She told you about it through a broken bleeding windpipeIt shook your bones and made your life feel skintightWell, sidewalk annieNow your coattails have come undoneYour whisper’s a scream nowSince you don’t speak to anyoneThe howlin’ winds could never care what she likedRhythm and blues or a stranger in the nightIt tore up the trailer with the sounds of a howlin’ wolfThe cellar was stone, even the garden was bulletproofWell, sidewalk annieNow your coattails have come undoneYour whisper’s a scream nowSince you don’t speak to anyoneLittle girl in your white ice skatesWe’ve seen your face walkin’ around the old school gatesWith a hand on your hip and the other one on your headYou realized it wasn’t gone, but lost insteadSidewalk annieNow your coattails have come undoneYour whisper’s a scream nowSince you don’t speak to anyoneInvested a nickel into the banks of a wishing wellAnd blew out the candles and hoped for somethin’ that sheCould, she could sellSidewalk annieNow your coattails have come undoneYour whisper’s a scream nowSince you don’t speak to anyone
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