Wild Girl

Wild Girl - Rickie Lee Jones

Wild girl you must have been a terror

When you were young

Your mamma must have let you run

Let you run free

But it wasn't very nice

Eating all that sugar and spice

What they want a girl to be

And all the things a child learns

On their way from hope to here

The innocence the fury the racism

Rage and fear

I don't remember tell me again

The part no one wants to hear

Well that's so many peoples story

A lot of heartache but not much glory

But glory the truth be told

Tomorrow you are twenty-one years old

I say Happy Birthday tomorrow to you

The only game in town

You can live your life with regret

About the things you think you did wrong

Or over what some one would not give

Or you can be grateful

When you open your eyes

The story you write you live

Well it's hard to be older and poor

I don't dig it that much anymore

But every day of my life

I'm so proud I became his wife

Because I got to raise Charlotte

And Charlotte's learning

The only game in town

Wild girl in a red dress

Come on speak up say yes

This thing that makes you beautiful

Never comes out of a jar

You are a beautiful girl

Because you reach out

From your beautiful world

That is the daughter you are

Walk right and the real world knows it

Cuz you bring it back down into the real world

Walk right up the real world knows it

You'll bring it back down into the real world

Say take me back baby

I just wanna make a dream come true

I came here to love somebody

I just want to make my dreams come true

And I'm trying

Because trying is

The only game

Live to tell the tale

The only game in town