Lyrics

SHE'S ON HER OWN

V1) She's gotta picture of her mama on a key chain,
and a bruise on her face from her dad
with a pack of smokes and a mountain dew,
she's doin' what she's has to do,
and it hurts, but she ain't going back

CHORUS: She's on her own,
and she's to young to be
all alone, it's a bitter sweet sixteen
sometimes she feels so helpless,
she cries herself to sleep
lost and scared with no one to hold,
She's on her own.

V2) She met Danny Jenkins at a truck stop
and soon they headed out to Santa Fe.
Their love was wild and he was too,
in three months there's a baby due
but he's gone, and he ain't coming back

CHORUS: She's on her own,
and she's too young to be
all alone, with a child at seventeen
sometimes she feels so helpless,
she cries herself to sleep
lost and scared with no one to hold,
She's on her own

BRIDGE: One cold autumn morning,
at a neighborhood Wal-mart
they found a baby in a blanket,
lying in a shopping cart
with a note tucked in her arms?and it said

CHORUS: She's on her own,
and she's too young to be
all alone, a child at 18 weeks
sometimes she feels so helpless,
she cries herself to sleep
lost and scared it?s hard letting go,
She's on her own