Sidewalk Annie

Wallflowers

She told you about it through a broken bleeding windpipe

It shook your bones and made your life feel skintight



Well, Sidewalk Annie

Now your coattails have come undone

Your whisper's a scream now

Since you don't speak to anyone



The howlin' winds could never care what she liked

Rhythm and Blues or A Stranger In The Night

It tore up the trailer with the sounds of a howlin' wolf

The cellar was stone, even the garden was bulletproof



Well, Sidewalk Annie

Now your coattails have come undone

Your whisper's a scream now

Since you don't speak to anyone



Little girl in your white ice skates

We've seen your face walkin' around the old school gates

With a hand on your hip and the other one on your head

You realized it wasn't gone, but lost instead



Sidewalk Annie

Now your coattails have come undone

Your whisper's a scream now

Since you don't speak to anyone

Invested a nickel into the banks of a wishing well

And blew out the candles and hoped for somethin' that she

could, she could sell



Sidewalk Annie

Now your coattails have come undone

Your whisper's a scream now

Since you don't speak to anyone