Rag Doll

A little girl in tattered lace
who scrapes at her arms
and paints her face
with
a rag doll smile
for a rag doll life
bending backwords
in the failing light

And he's the only one
who noticed.

well, she's so pretty when
she's colored red
on the street corner
playing dead
counting cracks and
imperfections
since the day her life
was not accepted.

And he's the only one
who could make her stay.

Little girl's got
the appropriate words
with "love" scarred upon
her arms.
written with a silver
bladed pen,
a reminder that what's done
is done.

Well, she sits upon her little
bench
to sing a song of war
and in her words was
once a name
for this lovely little
whore.
And he could love her
till his dying day,
to herself she sings,
but that must not have been
enough
just to make him stay.

She sang,
What happens when
the lights are out?
and the dark's been
awake too long,
what happens when this
heat goes out
and every song once sang
is gone.
What happens when a life
is lost
and silent vows are sworn
what happens when the
lights go out
and all thats sewn is torn?