Tears form a puddle on the pillow
She rest her head on but he don't care
And the smell of sour mildew briefly overwhelms her
Just a small town girl in a lonely world
With a lifetime of suffering already endured
And it's time to run away
Before he puts you in the ground now

Now she don't know where she's going
She's just gotta get away from here
Cuz everything that's ever been familiar to her
Is fading fast in the rearview mirror
Too long she was stronger
Than the concrete floor but he broke her foundation
And she's cold
And sore
And she's 54 miles from another new beginning

Lonely nights turn into lonely days
Empty tanks turn into empty ways
Underwater where she says she stays
Empty nights turn into empty ways

And she sees his face when
She closes her eyes with his smoke stained teeth
And a look of surprise
When he finally realizes that she put that life behind her
But those teardrops fall on the deafest ears
But they'll never understand what you felt for years

And the air's so cold that she can see her breath around her
Now she don't know what she's feelin
But it sure ain't free
As she lies there awake in the city of sin
With a needle singing her to sleep
That song she was singing right before
She cried the big puddle of tears from the pain inside
And another lost cause finds another new beginning
(Because those)

Lonely nights turn into lonely days
Empty tanks turn into an empty ways
On her knees is where she says she prays
Empty nights turn into empty ways