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