Highwater Rising - Life in Three PartsLyrics

She could climb from her window over to my house We would hide up in my room Where she'd feel safe for awhile And keep the windows open for the blue skies she'd say Even when it rained She kept her ears wide In case her parents ever called her name And she owned and told me the truth when We were on the phone She'd like to change her name She'd like to think of stories about places she'd never been She knows, she made me believe I loved everything about her and she was in love with me But she had to go Mother was too good for her Daddy wasn't ever good enough Through the years of fighting He never noticed how much she grew up When I last saw her at the corner of two streets She looked tired Like she might do something right She got a job, saves money on a car she never loved She never looked back And I always thought that I could be the one To make her stay She liked to stay out late, drinking and acting crazy She was just waiting I tried to hold her hand I understood but I could never understand Why she had to go I heard her mother's doing her good I heard her father died last spring They sold her house last week And no she still hasn't heard a thing But I don't think that I'll be the one to tell her She'd like to change her name She'd like to think of stories of places she'd never been She liked to stay out late, telling me stories About people and places she'd never been I tried to hold her hand And I understood what I could never understand