Sidewalk Annie

Sidewalk Annie - The 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