Lyrics:

Sweetie Linda

You ain’t looking so well

Like someone’s given you a bout of hell

And called ya names

None of which I know you’d claim

Thought I told ya

This ain’t a place where you belong

Get out now before it all goes wrong

Or explain

Why’s it worth all the pain

And you say

“Purple’s a pretty color anyway”

But all them scars and violent marks on you

Won’t fade away

Sweetie Linda

The kids’ll understand

The back of another lover’s hand

To lay waste

To what’s left of a beautiful face

I left ya money

By your smokes with a note

This’ll help ya get out and go

But it’s spent

And we both know where it went

And you say

“I’ll be better off if I stay”

The son you called your number one

Has gone and ran away

Sweetie Linda

They spoke your name across station to station

And cried “Eureka!”

“Done in by her own stagnation”

Sweetie Linda

At the crossroads you were found

Ya became the shadow

Casted when the Sun dies down

Down

Died down

Your picture’s taken over the town

Ya always came to me to keep you clean

But I couldn’t quite clean you out