Song Description

Seventeen year old runs away for some excitement. By the time she's turned to prostitution to feed herself, she realizes that this might been a bad idea. Mama had such big plans for her life. When the police picked her up, she was cut around her neck.

Lyrics

Worse Comes to Worst

Verse 1
Daddy treats her like a baby as she screams out the door
Into the streets for something wild, there's got to be more
The streets are hard she learns so fast, the nights can be so mean
But she ain't nobody's baby she's nearly seventeen

Pre-chorus
Mama had such big plans for the life her girl would lead
Charge cards and therapy but nothing that she'd need

Chorus
When worse comes to worst, probably worse than you expect
Daddy wouldn't let her party and she thought her life was wrecked
Worse comes to worst, baby's run away for good
Trying to act all grown up doing things she thoughts she never would

Verse 2
Businessmen or congressmen or some punk down the street
For fifty bucks she'll take them home even bad girls got to eat
One more job to do and she'd be done for the night
She didn't see it coming when he turned out the light

Pre-chorus
Mama had such big plans but there's nothing guaranteed
Charge cards not accepted, it's some fight the girl would need

Chorus
When worse comes to worst it's worse than you expect
When the police picked her up she was cut around her neck
Worse comes to worst bad boys all around
And worse comes to worst, Baby's stuck in lost and found

Guitar

Pre-chorus
Mama had such big plans for the life her girl would lead
Gave her Saks Fifth Avenue, but nothing that she'd need

Chorus
When worse comes to worse it's worst than you expect
When the police picked her up she was cut around the neck
When worse comes to worst bad boys all around
Now a tag's on her toe and she's stuck in lost and found

When worse comes to worst
When worse comes to worst