Did you cry when they dragged you home

Put a lock on the door and the telephone

Was a runaway girl all they could see

Have the nights and the days that you've come through

Made the right seem wrong and the false seem true

Was a runaway girl all they could see

A teenage extra from the satellite TV

Runaway girl

Too bad, too bad

Runaway girl

Too wild, too wild

Were they deaf to the prayer behind your lies

Maybe they didn't dare to ask you why

Was a runaway girl all they chose to see

All they were prepared to admit to

Runaway girl

Too bad, too bad

Runaway girl

A real wild child

So you cower in the towns forgotten places

And you make your bed with unfamiliar faces

And at last you've got your freedom but that's all you've got

You're tryin' to make your mind up if you're better off

You pretend to wait for washing in some laundromat

But you're damned if you'll give them the satisfaction of you going back

You'd freeze to death before you'd share a roof with them

And you'd starve before you'd let him get his hands on you again

Did you cry when they dragged you home

Did you cry when they dragged you home

Poor little runaway, poor little runaway