The Ballad of Virginia Gray

Those beautiful eyes
That stare right through him dead to the light of the room
He'll paint on her smile so she can lay out and say goodbye to all she knew

His heart did swell, as the words he'd tell fell out on the floor

So why here in a full moonlight must his hand paint a false delight
Now it's over for him and he knows that she won't ever know

This tongue tied young child so afraid of the sound pushed out by his head to the air

Who spotted her there, so graceful and so out of reach that he couldn't bear to ask her name
So he just looked her way, promised her all the world

So why here in a full moonlight must his hand paint a false delight now
It's over for him and he knows that she won't ever know

But the world it wasn't meant for him and so he hid tongue tied away from it
But when it was done with certain folk, it was to them that he spoke

He told the little old lady all about the girl
The little dead baby how he owed her the world
The bloated business man that should he see that girl he'd tell her they were meant to be

Then late on one shift he pulls back covers to reveal one Virginia Gray
Who drank all the waves and now lay there sky blue, deaf to every word he'd say

So why here in a full moonlight must his hand paint a false delight
Now it's over for him and he knows that she won't ever know