[Verse 1]

It was bleak, living without you

You were already leaving when she was ten

And it never got better ‘cause her Dad left too

And then the new family was when

She learned how the world could undo

The beauty you both tried to give her

And what grief and madness can do

And what grief and madness can do

[Verse 2]

It was sudden and not understood

When the man placed himself on her

And someone didn’t stop what they could

And didn’t think of her honour

And never seemed to care where she stood

And that that time was just the beginning

It is almost crazy that we can burn a soul

Just by paying no attention

[Chorus]

She had nowhere to go

Nowhere to go

She learned she had nowhere to go

She had nowhere to go

Nowhere to go

She learned she had nowhere to go

[Verse 3]

I listened to her cries one night

So many years from the day

When I thought she was so beautiful

And then she moved so far away

I never knew they hurt her

Never knew what brought her back to town

Never knew she was beaten

Never knew what brought her down

[Chorus 2]

She had nowhere to go

Nowhere to go

She learned she had nowhere to go

She had nowhere to go

Nowhere to go

She learned she had nowhere to go

[Chorus 3]

She had nowhere to go

Nowhere to go

She learned she had nowhere to go

She had nowhere to go

Nowhere to go

She learned she had nowhere to go