Now, pretty baby
I'm runnin' back home to you
Fresh out the slammer
I know who my first call will be to
Fresh out the slammer, oh
Another summer, takin' cover, rolling thunder
He don't understand me
Splintered back in winter, silent dinners, bitter
He was with her in dreams
Gray and blue and fights and tunnels
Handcuffed to the spell I was under
For just one hour of sunshine
Years of labor, locks and ceilings
In the shade of how he was feeling
But it's gonna be alright
I did my time
Now, pretty baby
I'm runnin' back home to you
Frеsh out the slammer
I know who my first call will be to
Frеsh out the slammer, oh
Camera flashes, welcome bashes, get the matches
Toss the ashes off the ledge
As I said in my letters
Now that I know better
I will never lose my baby again
My friends tried, but I wouldn't hear it
Watch me daily disappearing
For just one glimpse of his smile
All those nights, he kept me going
Swirled you into all of my poems
Now we're at the starting line
I did my time
Now, pretty baby
I'm running
To the house we still wait up
And that porch light gleams
To the one who says
I'm the girl of his American dreams
And no matter what I've done
It wouldn't matter anyway
Ain't no way I'm gonna screw up now
That I know what's at stake here
At the park
Where we used to sit on children's swings
Wearing imaginary rings
But it's gonna be alright
I did my time