Standing here with a tale to tell
  I might as well tell to you
  Nothing near Wagnerian
  As Terminator Two
  It's an old one about a little dirt farm girl
  Who wanted to get out for good
  She'd do anything to keep that dream
  She'd do anything she could
    Who was she
  To feel so free
  With her heart on her sleeve
  She just couldn't believe...
  There was a price to pay
    Her very first chance to escape that year
  Came when the circus had come to town
  She wound up in bed and quite madly in love
  With some rubber nose juggling clown
  He promised he'd return for her come next spring
  And he swore that he wouldn't forget
  Needless to say come the following May
  More than her appetite was getting wet
  She proceeded unheeded and quite undefeated
  To the trailer behind the tents
  And her heart began to soar at his trailer door
  She was gonna go wherever he went
    Who was she
  To feel so free
  With her heart on her sleeve
  She just couldn't believe...
  There was a price to pay
    He arrived at last at about half past
  With a girl under every arm
  But all of this in itself could have been innocent as hell
  But what began to cause her alarm
  Was when he locked the door behind him like she'd always been
  She was standing alone in the dirt
  And her eyes were so dry that she began to cry
  And something began to hurt
  She wanted to tear the hair out of her head
  Yeah and she wanted to wish that she was dead
  But a voice in her just would not let her drop
  And her heart began to break but it didn't stop
    "Run all you're races
  And don't you fear
  You and I
  Are getting out of here
  And we'll survive
  That I guarantee
  Cause you don't need much
  When all you have is me"
    She listened to the little voice in her
  And then she hit the road
  Free at last and with just a tiny scar
  And finally on her own
  No one knows what became of her
  All we know is she got away
  And though there really ain't no guarantees down here
  I like to think she did okay
    Who was she
  To feel so free
  With her heart on her sleeve
  She just wouldn't believe
    That there's a price to pay
  That there's a price to pay
  That there's a price to pay
  That there's a price to pay