(Chris DeGarmo/Scott Rockenfield/Geoff Tate)
    You've got a cardboard house
  Live there all the time
  Keep your memories tied with string
  The face that many once adored
  Twenty years gone maybe more
  Somewhere you lost the dream
  Mama watched your every move, but now you're all alone
    She's been gone for awhile
  Daddy left some time ago, fading years pass too slow
  He's the only one, could make you smile
  Oh, you're still crying
    Big city bound
  Gona make your mark
  Read your name in the lights
  All the ads and people say, beauty lets you get you way
  Tried your best to prove them right
    But living on the streets ain't bad, sad people make you glad
  Pardon me, could you spare some change
  -Oh, you're still crying-
    Street corner girl
  Watch the crowd go by
  Fill your tin can with life
  Summer days tend to slip away
  Like your men you couldn't make them stay
  Hard to choose, whiskey or a wife
  Sometimes you wonder where's the end
  Where you goin' where you been?
  Happiness seems so hard to win
  Most never care to find
  Della Brown sees it al the time
  Looking for that man to make her smile again
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